The resurrection of rights in Poland

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The resurrection of rights in Poland

Jacek Kurczewski

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book deals with the social, political, and normative changes of the last decades in Poland, and aims to synthesize the empirical evidence of the normative aspect, as reflected in attitudes and action, with a theoretical interpretation of this historic process. Was the Polish experience unique, or was it merely a manifestation of common problems affecting all societies in the last quarter of the twentieth century? The place of the Polish experience in the recent history of Communist Europe, the rise of Solidarity and the development of a re-structured society are extensively and absorbingly examined.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - the old system and the revolution
  • Stalinism as crime
  • after Stalinism - organized injustice
  • Polish society - the rise of the new middle class
  • words and deeds - demands and events
  • daily conflicts
  • union democracy in Solidarity
  • union democracy in action - a meeting
  • self-limited freedom of expression - censorship
  • self-limited freedom of market - food rationing
  • daily bread and liberation
  • the constitution of the heart
  • personal freedom - religion, personality and privatization of the body
  • rule of law, democracy and freedoms.

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