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The Polish road from socialism : the economics, sociology, and politics of transition
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- Creator
- edited by Walter D. Connor and Piotr Ploszajski with Alex Inkeles and Włodzimierz Wesołowski
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1992]
- ©1992
- Physical Details
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- 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780873328869, 0873328868
- OCLC
- ocm24143079
- This book has been published simultaneously in Poland under the title 'Escape from Socialism.'
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Background to Crisis / W.D. Connor and P. Ploszajski -- Pt. 1. From Command to Market -- Some Practical Problems of Privatization - Through Polish Eyes / Jan Mujzel -- Poland and the International Economy in the 1980s: The Failure of Reforming Socialist Foreign Trade and Prospects for the Future / Ben Slay -- Resource Allocation: Capital / Keith Crane -- Adjustment and Competitiveness / Jan Bossak and Wojciech Bienkowski -- Pt. 2. From Constraint to Choice -- Transformation of Social Order and Legitimization of Inequalities / Wlodzimierz Wesolowski and Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski -- Society and Bureaucracy / Adam Sarapata -- Attitudes on Everyday Life in the Emerging Postsocialist Society / Piotr Lukasiewicz and Andrzej Sicinski -- Public Opinion, Values, and Economic Reform / Krzysztof Nowak -- Public Opinion in Poland's Transition to Market Democracy / David S. Mason -- Pt. 3. From Control to Pluralism -- Participation and Interests: Dilemmas of the Emerging Social and Political Structure in Poland / Andrzej Rychard -- Polish Elections of 1990: Beyond the "Pospolite Ruszenie" / Krzysztof Jasiewicz -- The Dilemma of Political Interests in the Postcommunist Transition / Jack Bielasiak -- Psychological Dimensions of a Sociopolitical Change: The Polish Case / Janusz Reykowski -- Political Institutions in the Process of Transition to a Postsocialist Formation: Polish and Comparative Perspectives / Stanislaw Gebethner -- The Political Attitudes of Polish Society in the Period of Systemic Transitions / Miroslawa Marody -- Pt. 4. From One Truth to Many Voices -- The Legacy of Real Socialism, Group Interests, and the Search for a New Utopia / Edmund Mokrzycki -- Transformations of Normative Foundations and Empirical Sociologics: Class, Stratification, and Democracy in Poland / Michael D. Kennedy