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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788508403321

Titolo

The origins of modern Polish democracy / / edited by M.B.B. Biskupski, James S. Pula, and Piotr J. Wróbel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-8214-4309-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Disciplina

320.9438

Soggetti

Democracy - Poland

Poland Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Guide to Pronunciation; 1 ||| An Introduction to Polish Democratic Thought; 2 ||| New Political Directions; 3 ||| The Rise of Political Parties, 1890-1914; 4 ||| Polish Democratic Thought during the First World War; 5 ||| The Rise and Fall of Parliamentary Democracy in Interwar Poland; 6 ||| Polish Democratic Thought at Home,1939-45; 7 ||| Democratic Thought and Action among the Polish Political Émigrés, 1939-89; 8 ||| Polish Democratic Thought and the Fight for Sovereignty, 1945-69; 9 ||| Polish Democratic Thought, 1968-89

10 ||| Rebuilding Democracy in Poland,1989-2004Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist era of free Poland.  The idea of democracy survived in Poland through long periods of foreign occupation, the trials of two world wars, and years of Communist subjugation. Whether in Poland itself or among exiles, Polish