Flashpoint Poland / George Blazynski
1979, First Edition. Elmsford, New York : Pergamon Press. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Library marks remain. Item #376591
Series; Pergamon Policy Studies on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe ; Number 52. Physical description; 416 pages. Contents; Front Cover; Flashpoint Poland; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Look Back in Anger; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Gierek's Miracle: December 1970-June 1976; Chapter 1. Gomulka'sLegacy; Chapter 2. One We ek That Shook the Communist World: December 1970; Gdansk and Warsaw; Gdynia; Szczecin; The Country at Large; Earthquake at the Top; The New Team; First Days After; The Significance of December Events; Chapter 3. A Year of Agonizing Reappraisals: 1971; DEFUSING THE SITUATION: PHASE ONE; Defusing the Situation: Phase Two. Gierek's Program for Poland. Chapter 4. Forward with Gierek: (1971-1975); The Church: a Key Force in the Country; The Party, The Sejm, and The Government; Administrative Reform; Educational Reform; The Workers: Their Strength and Their Pressure; The Intellectuals: THE Conscience of the Nation; Mass Media: The Instriument of the Party; The Economic Miracle; Economic Dynamism and Politcal Retrenchment; Chapter 5. Foreign Policy: (1971-1977); THE Soviet Cornerstone; Poland and the Socialist Commonwealth; West Germany: Toward Reconciliation; East Germany: Toward Integration. Opening to the West: An Exercise in Counterbalance the Chinese Factor; Looking Toward Eurocommunism; Helsinki: Hopes and Apprehensions; Chapter 6. From Boom to Reality: December 1975; Chapter 7. The Growing SocialTension: 1975-June 1976; Part Il: The Fulcrum ofPoland's Fate; Chapter 8. One Fridayin June 1976; Chapter 9. Events Speak for Themselves: June 1976-March 1977; Repressions and Hesitations; Committee for the Defense of Workers; Chapter 10. The Economic Necessity; Chapter 11. Who Rules the Country?; The Political Misjudgment; Assessment on the Spot; Chapter 12. After June: Confusion. Chapter 13. New Measures: Whois Leading Whom?Chapter 14. Gierek: Prisonerof the System; Chapter 15. Playing for Time: 1977-March 1979; Tension Grows Again: 1977; State of the Nation as Seen in Warsaw: October 1977; Church-State Summits: October 1977-January 1978; THE Anatomy of Opposition: (1977-1979); Procrastination and Qualified Tolerance: 1978 - March 1979; Chapter 16. The Pope from Poland: Has History Smiled on Poles?; Postscript - The Pope in Poland; Part Ill: Conclusion; Chapter 17. Testing the Limits of the Possible; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Pergamon Policy Studies. Subjects; Poland History. Poland History (1945-1980). Poland Political events (1945-).
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