Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution write by Jack M. Bloom. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity--the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution explains how it happened, from the imposition to Communism to its end, based on 150 interviews of Solidarity leaders, activists, supporters and opponents. Bloom presents the perspectives and experiences of these participants. He shows how an opposition was built, the battle between Solidarity and the ruling party, the conflicts that emerged within each side during this tense period, how Solidarity survived the imposition of martial law and how the opposition forced the government to negotiate itself out of power.
Review: "Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution. Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland"/ Jack M. Bloom. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN 9789004231801
Review: "Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution. Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland"/ Jack M. Bloom. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN 9789004231801 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Review: "Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution. Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland"/ Jack M. Bloom. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN 9789004231801 write by Christie Miedema. This book was released on 2016. Review: "Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution. Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland"/ Jack M. Bloom. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN 9789004231801 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empowering Revolution
Empowering Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empowering Revolution write by Gregory F. Domber. This book was released on 2014-10-06. Empowering Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland's politically tumultuous steps toward democratic revolution. In this groundbreaking history, Gregory F. Domber examines American policy toward Poland and its promotion of moderate voices within the opposition, while simultaneously addressing the Soviet and European influences on Poland's revolution in 1989. With a cast including Reagan, Gorbachev, and Pope John Paul II, Domber charts American support of anticommunist opposition groups--particularly Solidarity, the underground movement led by future president Lech Wa&322;&281;sa--and highlights the transnational network of Polish emigres and trade unionists that kept the opposition alive. Utilizing archival research and interviews with Polish and American government officials and opposition leaders, Domber argues that the United States empowered a specific segment of the Polish opposition and illustrates how Soviet leaders unwittingly fostered radical, pro-democratic change through their policies. The result is fresh insight into the global impact of the Polish pro-democracy movement.
Beauty is in the Street
Beauty is in the Street - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty is in the Street write by Joachim C. Häberlen. This book was released on 2023-10-05. Beauty is in the Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator 'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, The Observer 'An ambitious and masterly account of utopian protest in Europe ... Fast-paced, with an eye for telling detail and written with a light touch' Robert Gildea In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts came to a head most dramatically in 1968 and 1989, when mass movements swept Europe and rewrote its history. In the decades between, Joachim C. Häberlen argues, new movements emerged that transformed the nature of protesting. Activism moved beyond traditional demonstrations, from squatting to staging 'happenings' and camping out at nuclear power plants. People protested in the way they dressed, the music they listened to, the lovers they slept with, the clubs where they danced all night. New movements were born, notably anti-racism, women's liberation, gay liberation, and environmentalism. And protest turned inward, as activists experimented with new ways of living and feeling, from communes to group therapy, in their efforts to live a better life in the here and now. Some of these struggles succeeded, others failed. But successful or not, their history provides a glimpse into roads not taken, into futures that did not happen. The stories in Häberlen's book invite us to imagine different futures; to struggle, to fail, and to try again. In a time when we are told that there are no alternatives, they show us that there could be another way.
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age write by Colin Barker. This book was released on 2021-07-01. Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. This book compellingly explores a series of such upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. Each chapter studies the ways in which protest movements developed into insurgent challenges to state power, and the strategies that regimes have deployed to contain and repress revolt. In addition to empirical chapters, the book engages in theorization of revolution, dealing with questions such as the patterning of revolution in contemporary history, the relationship between class struggle and social movements, and the prospects of socialist revolution in the twenty-first century.
