The Collapse of State Socialism : the Case of Poland.
Material type: TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400862016
- 1400862019
- 0691637377
- 9780691637372
- Communism -- Poland -- History -- 20th century
- Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- Pologne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1989-
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism
- Communism
- Politics and government
- Poland
- Political Science
- Law, Politics & Government
- Socialism, Communism & Anarchism
- Since 1900
- 335.43/09438 20
- HX315.7.A6
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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.
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