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Defeat of Solidarity
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ISBN: 0801443180 9780801443183 0801473438 9780801473432 1501729276 9781501729270 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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How did the fall of communism and the subsequent transition to capitalism in Eastern Europe affect the people who experienced it? And how did their anger affect the quality of the democratic systems that have emerged? Poland offers a particularly provocative case, for it was here where workers most famously seemed to have won, thanks to the role of the Solidarity trade union. And yet, within a few short years, they had clearly lost. An oppressive communist regime gave way to a capitalist society that embraced economic and political inequality, leaving many workers frustrated and angry. Their leaders first ignored them, then began to fear them, and finally tried to marginalize them. In turn, workers rejected their liberal leaders, opening the way for right-wing nationalists to take control of Solidarity. Ost tells a fascinating story about the evolution of post-communist society in Eastern Europe. Informed by years of fieldwork in Polish factory towns, scores of interviews with workers, labor activists, and politicians, and an exhaustive reading of primary sources, his new book gives voice to those who have not been heard. But even more, Ost proposes a novel theory about the role of anger in politics to show why such voices matter, and how they profoundly affect political outcomes. Drawing on Poland's experiences, Ost describes lessons relevant to democratization throughout Eastern Europe and to democratic theory in general.

The fall : a comparative study of the end of communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland.
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ISBN: 905823097X Year: 2001 Publisher: Amsterdam Harwood

The grooves of change : Eastern Europe at the turn of the millennium.
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ISBN: 082232637X Year: 2001 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

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New democracies in crisis? : a comparative constitutional study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
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ISBN: 9780415695862 9780203795026 9781134469376 9781134469444 9781134469512 9781138956414 Year: 2014 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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Global challenges and East European responses
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ISBN: 8301086238 Year: 1988 Publisher: Warszawa PWN

Central European civil-military reforms at risk
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ISBN: 0198293038 Year: 1996 Volume: 306 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies,

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In-depth studies on migration in Central and Eastern Europe : the case of Poland
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ISBN: 9211167000 9789211167009 Year: 1998 Volume: 11 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) United Nations

Beyond EU enlargement. 2 : The agenda of stabilisation for Southeastern Europe
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ISBN: 3892045496 Year: 2001 Publisher: Gütersloh Bertelsmann

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ISBN: 0761956794 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Sage


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ISBN: 0253202256 0253337917 9780253337917 9780253202253 Year: 1979 Volume: MB-225 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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