TY - BOOK ID - 77901794 TI - The origins of modern Polish democracy AU - Biskupski, Mieczysław B. AU - Pula, James S. AU - Wróbel, Piotr J. PY - 2010 SN - 0821443097 9780821443095 9780821418918 0821418912 9780821418925 0821418920 PB - Athens : Ohio University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Democracy KW - Poland KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901794 AB - The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist era of free Poland. The idea of democracy survived in Poland through long periods of foreign occupation, the trials of two world wars, and years of Communist subjugation. Whether in Poland itself or among exiles, Polish ER -