The Collapse of State Socialism : : The Case of Poland / / Bartolomiej Kaminski.
Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. The Institutional Sources of Crisis-Generating Tendencies
- CHAPTER TWO. The Limited "Reformability" of State Socialism
- CHAPTER THREE. The Logic of a Closed System: The Vicious Cycle of Decline
- CHAPTER FOUR. Crisis Management: The Trap of Negative Legitimation
- CHAPTER FIVE. Determinants of Normalization: Why Has It Failed to "Normalize" State Socialism in Poland?
- CHAPTER SIX. The Institutional Decomposition of State Socialism: The Syndrome of Withdrawal
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Beyond State Socialism
- APPENDIX A. Stages of the "Post-Martial Law" Normalization: A Bird's Eye View of Major Political Developments
- APPENDIX Β. The Debt Trap
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index