The Polish Solidarity movement in retrospect
Subtitle: a story of failure or success?
By: edited by Dariusz Aleksandrowicz, Stefani Sonntag and Jan Wielgohs
Contributors: Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Publizistik
Publisher: GSFP, Gesellschaft für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Publizistik mbH
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9783936382662
Subjects: Congresses; Political activity; History; Politics and government; Labor unions; NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization)
Notes: Papers presented at the "Gdansk-Warsaw-Copenhagen-Athens. Stations on the Road into a United Europe" conference held in Frankfurt (Oder) in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Polish solidarity movement: revolutionary force or evolutionary factor? / Dariusz Aleksandrowicz; title: The original sin of Poland's Third Republic. discounting "solidarity" and its consequences for political reconciliation / Jan Kubik and Amy Linch; title: Why is there no third way? the role of neoliberal ideology, networks and think tanks in combating market socialism and shaping transformation in Poland / Dorothee Bohle and Gisela Neunhöffer; title: Culture and constitutional politics in the Polish transition to democracy. solidarity's legacy to Poland's Third Republic / Robert Brier; title: The prudent opposition. the ZNAK Movement as the moderate wing of "solidarity" / Andrzej Friszke; title: The people, politics, and state / Dariusz Aleksandrowicz.