Research Catalog

Title

The resurrection of rights in Poland / Jacek Kurczewski.

Author

Kurczewski, Jacek.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description

xix, 462 p.; ;22 cm.

Summary

Jacek Kurczewski synthesizes empirical evidence and theoretical analysis of the transition to democracy and the rule of law to demonstrate the resurrection of rights in Poland. He raises the question of whether the Polish experience was unique, or if it was merely a manifestation of the common problems affecting most Eastern European societies in the last quarter of the twentieth century. From a detailed analysis of day-to-day rule-making to the study of internal democracy within Solidarity, the author makes a compelling case for the role of deep-rooted social values and the rise of a middle class in bringing about the transformation of Polish society.

Subject

• NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization)
• Poland > Social conditions > 1945-
• Poland > Politics and government > 1945-
• Poland > Politics and government > 1945-1980

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: The Old System and the Revolution -- 2. Stalinism as Crime -- 3. After Stalinism: Organized Injustice -- 4. Polish Society: The Rise of the New Middle Class -- 5. Words and Deeds: Demands and Events -- 6. Daily Conflicts -- 7. Union Democracy in 'Solidarity' -- 8. Union Democracy in Action: A Meeting -- 9. Self-Limited Freedom of Expression: Censorship -- 10. Self-Limited Freedom of Market: Food Rationing -- 11. Daily Bread and Liberation -- 12. The Constitution of the Heart -- 13. Personal Freedoms: Religion, Personality, and the Privatization of the Body -- 14. The Rule of Law: Democracy and Freedoms.

ISBN

019825685X (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^93009237^

OCLC

27432266

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Harvard Library