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In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state." Laba had set himself the ambitious task of documenting the histo



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Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*ONE. Introduction, pg. 3*Two. Massacre and Memory: Gdansk and Gdynia, 1970, pg. 15*THREE. The Three-Day Worker Republic: The General Strike in Szczecin, pg. 57*FOUR. Gierek: The Road to Confrontation, pg. 83*FIVE. The Vanguard versus Workers' Self-Government, pg. 99*Six. Solidarity at the Grass Roots, pg. 115*SEVEN. Sacred Politics, pg. 126*EIGHT. The Ideological Origins of Solidarity, pg. 155*NINE. Fashionable Myths and Proletarian Realities, pg. 169*Notes, pg. 183*Bibliography, pg. 223*Index, pg. 243

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691606897, 978-0691606897
      ISBN10: 0691606897
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      Book Synopsis

      In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state." Laba had set himself the ambitious task of documenting the histo



      Trade Review
      One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991

      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*ONE. Introduction, pg. 3*Two. Massacre and Memory: Gdansk and Gdynia, 1970, pg. 15*THREE. The Three-Day Worker Republic: The General Strike in Szczecin, pg. 57*FOUR. Gierek: The Road to Confrontation, pg. 83*FIVE. The Vanguard versus Workers' Self-Government, pg. 99*Six. Solidarity at the Grass Roots, pg. 115*SEVEN. Sacred Politics, pg. 126*EIGHT. The Ideological Origins of Solidarity, pg. 155*NINE. Fashionable Myths and Proletarian Realities, pg. 169*Notes, pg. 183*Bibliography, pg. 223*Index, pg. 243

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