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• List of Tables ; Preface; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The Institutional Sources of Crisis-Generating Tendencies; CHAPTER TWO: The Limited ""Reformability"" of State Socialism; CHAPTER THREE: The Logic of a Closed System: The Vicious Cycle of Decline ; CHAPTER FOUR: Crisis Management: The Trap of Negative Legitimation ; CHAPTER FIVE: Determinants of Normalization: Why Has It Failed to ""Normalize"" State Socialism in Poland? ; CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Decomposition of State Socialism: The Syndrome of Withdrawal ; CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond State Socialism.

• APPENDIX A: Stages of the ""Post-Martial Law"" Normalization"" A Bird's Eye View of Major Political Developments APPENDIX B: The Debt Trap; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a gener.

• List of Tables ; Preface; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The Institutional Sources of Crisis-Generating Tendencies; CHAPTER TWO: The Limited ""Reformability"" of State Socialism; CHAPTER THREE: The Logic of a Closed System: The Vicious Cycle of Decline ; CHAPTER FOUR: Crisis Management: The Trap of Negative Legitimation ; CHAPTER FIVE: Determinants of Normalization: Why Has It Failed to ""Normalize"" State Socialism in Poland? ; CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Decomposition of State Socialism: The Syndrome of Withdrawal ; CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond State Socialism.

• APPENDIX A: Stages of the ""Post-Martial Law"" Normalization"" A Bird's Eye View of Major Political Developments APPENDIX B: The Debt Trap; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a gener.

• Introduction--
• 1. Visions of equality: the state, the church, and women's sections--
• 2. Heroines and rebels: accommodation and resistance on the shop floor--
• 3. From village to factory: creating the new proletarians--
• 4. New women for new occupations: the case of coal mining--
• 5. Women astray: debating sexuality and reproduction during the thaw--
• 6. Reforming the system, protecting motherhood: contradictions of the post-stalinist experience-- Epilogue: from communism to post-communism--
• Appendix I. List of archives and abbreviations--
• Appendix II. Personal interviews.
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Conventional historical accounts of European communism tend to delegate women to the margins. By focusing on female industrial workers in postwar Poland, Malgorzata Fidelis demonstrates that women, in fact, were central to the making of communist society both as subjects of policies and ideology, and as powerful historical agents in their own right. This book uncovers a dynamic story of political contestation between state and society, in which ideas and practices of gender played a surprisingly pivotal role. Through fascinating material ranging from previously untapped party and secret police records to ordinary people's letters to the press and oral interviews, the book offers new insights on the social impact of war, struggles on the shop-floor, the challenges of incorporating village girls into fast-moving industrial society, the societal resistance against women entering male-dominated occupations, and finally the unexpected consequences of liberalization and reform.
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• Introduction Concepts of Europe in a Polish Political Tradition A Fine Idea A Predictable Failure Creating a Movement Great Expectations Thwarted Plans The Union of Polish Federalists European Ideas of Polish Political Parties Liberation, Detente and European Union War of Ideas Poland's European Policy after Communism: Continuity and Change Endnotes Bibliography Index.
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Polish exiles in the West after 1939 were in the vanguard of the movement for European integration and rank with the so-called founding fathers of European unity for the fertility of their ideas. Unprepared to return to a communist-dominated homeland they debated how the perennial insecurity of their country could be overcome if and when the Iron Curtain came down. After intensive discussions in their journals and in various clubs and societies over half a century they concluded that Poland's independence, economic growth and social development could only be guaranteed by membership in a European association of states. To this end they formulated and refined their federalist conceptions and participated actively in west European organizations such as the Council of Europe and the European Movement. Their political activities are set in the context of international relations during the Cold War. Interviews with leading figures in post-communist Poland assess the impact of the exiles on Polish attitudes to the European Union.
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Marking the fiftieth anniversary of events in 1956, that were a major turning point in the history of communist-ruled Eastern Europe, this book contains a selection of some of the research on those momentous events and their memory and legacy.
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Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a general theory and then applies it to the case of Poland. Contending that the breakdown of state socialism results from symbiosis of the state and the economy, the book describes how communist governments searched for tools that would replace the market mechanism and the rule of law. Doomed in advance by the absence of autonomy and competition, this search generated new crises by undermining the state's capacity to suppress individual interests and to direct the economy.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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• Introduction
• The institutional sources of crisis-generating tendencies
• The limited "reformability" of state socialism
• The logic of a closed system : the vicious cycle of decline
• Crisis management : the trap of negative legitimation
• Determinants of normalization : why has it failed to "normalize" state socialism in Poland?
• The institutional decomposition of state socialism : the syndrome of withdrawal
• Beyond state socialism
• Appendix A. Stages of the "post-martial" law normalization : a bird's eye view of major political developments
• Appendix B. The debt trap.

Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a general theory and then applies it to the case of Poland. Contending that the breakdown of state socialism results from symbiosis of the state and the economy, the book describes how communist governments searched for tools that would replace the market mechanism and the rule of law. Doomed in advance by the absence of autonomy and competition, this search generated new crises by undermining the state's capacity to suppress individual interests and to direct the economy.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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