Reluctant socialists, rural entrepreneurs : class, culture, and the Polish state
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Reluctant socialists, rural entrepreneurs : class, culture, and the Polish state
（Studies in the ethnographic imagination）
Westview Press, 1991
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Bibliography: p. 229-238
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: pbk ISBN 9780813319322
Description
An examination of the Polish countryside, based on the author observing, studying and working with farmers and other members of the agrarian class. Nagengast provides a first-hand perspective on the monumental failures of the Polish version of socialism and offers chilling forecasts about the impact of the accelerating development of capitalism on the culture, politics and economy of Poland.
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ISBN 9780813380537
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The momentous events taking place in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe have focused attention on urban scenes: workers and their trade unions, Solidarity, figures of the Communist Party, and now members of the non-communist government. Reminding us that Poland is still a predominantly rural nation, this book views these historical changes and their underlying agrarian dimensions from the perspective of the countryside. By combining long-term ethnographic field research on class fractionation and rural society and culture with a corresponding historical analysis of the policies and practices of the Polish state, the author elucidates the limited successes of the Polish development model. She also highlights the failures of the Polish version of socialism, which were due largely to decisions that led the nation state down a distinctively capitalist path to agrarian development. On the basis of her research, Nagengast makes forecasts about the impact of the accelerating development of capitalism on the culture, politics and economy of Poland. This book is intended for anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars interested in Eastern European and socialist studies.
Table of Contents
- Poles apart
- history, class and identity
- the production and reproduction of differentiation
- you can't get there from here
- peasants and farmers in Wola Plawska
- class stratification in Wola Plawska
- who was in charge here?
- who is in control?
- the future.
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