Continuities in Poland's permanent transition / Harald Wydra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wydra, Harald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poland--Politics and government--1989-.

Poland.

Politics and government.

National characteristics, Polish.

Post-communism--Poland.

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

xii, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book examines change in post-1989 Poland by linking it analytically to the continuity of Poland's past. It argues that the first reality of objective-institutional changes is underpinned by the continuity of second realities. Political crises and conflicts are analyzed as to the impact of images on identities in situations of dissolution of order. Based on an interdisciplinary analysis of the Polish case, this study proposes a new conceptual framework for the study of transitional societies and revises standard assumptions in transitology and democratization studies.

Contents:

1 The Continuity of Second Reality 1

2 The Continuity of Transition 31

3 The Continuity of Historical Antagonism 57

4 The Continuity of Backwardness 83

5 The Continuity of the Image of the West 113

6 The Continuity of the Image of Solidarity 139

7 The Continuity of the Image of 1989 163

8 The Continuity of Expecting Discontinuities 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-249) and indexes.

ISBN:

0312231350

OCLC:

123100956