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The Collapse of State Socialism : The Case of Poland
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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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 B: The Debt Trap; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.