The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization
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The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization
By (Author) Roman Laba
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
322.209438
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
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Hardback
260
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
539g
Description
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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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
