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Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945–1950

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Description for Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945–1950 Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30, 18 black & white halftones, 9 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.

The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a social revolution, in which workers expressed their hopes for dramatic social change and influenced the evolution—and eventual downfall—of the communist regime.Kenney compares Lödz, Poland's largest manufacturing center, and Wroclaw, a city rebuilt as Polish upon the ruins of wartime destruction. His account of dramatic strikes in the textile mills of Lödz shows how workers resisted the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801477935
SKU
V9780801477935
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Ref
99-21

About Padraic Jeremiah Kenney
Padraic Kenney is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989 and editor of Transnational Moments of Change and Partisan Histories.

Reviews for Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945–1950
"This book is a solid, well-researched, and well-argued study of the origins of the communist era in Poland. It shows the significance of gender differences in determining working-class action and demonstrates the complexity of Polish labor history, clearly delineating the differences between two working-class communities: Lodz and Wroclaw."—Richard D. Lewis, Slavic Review "With the passage of time and the opening ... Read more

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