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Solidarity And Contention: Networks Of Polish Opposition
Maryjane Osa
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Paperback. Series: Social Movements, Protest, & Contention. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 halftones, 18 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HBJD; JH; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
Offers an innovative model for understanding how social movements occur in repressive societies
After a series of failed attempts at mobilizing society, Poland’s opposition sprang to surprising—and newly effective—life with the formation of the Solidarity trade union in 1980. If not for those past failures, this book suggests, Solidarity might never have succeeded. Solidarity and Contention deftly reconstructs the networks of protest in Communist Poland to show how waves of dissent during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s left an organizational residue that both instructed and enabled Solidarity and, ultimately, the Polish revolution.
Using newly available documentary sources, Maryjane Osa establishes links ... Read more Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Social Movements, Protest, & Contention
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638741
SKU
V9780816638741
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About Maryjane Osa
Maryjane Osa is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Northwestern University.
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