The legacy of state socialism as a challenge to systemic transformation: Poland in comparative perspective

Abstract: "The paper concentrates on the endogenous factors involved in both the 'unexpected collapse' of soviet type regimes and the trajectories of their transformations. The author focuses on 'ideologically designed' types of social structures which, quite unintentionally, created favourable conditions for the emergence of group interests' consciousness in basic social classes. In some countries, and in Poland in particular, these class interests proved to be successful in challenging the efficiency and legitimacy of the socialist system. In spite of changes and adaptations in the course of their evolution, these inherited interests and, associated with them, systemic preferences, are still powerful challenges to the strategies and outcomes of liberal market society and democracy. In the first chapter this thesis is critically confronted with the relevant sociological and politological theories of post-socialist 'transitions' and 'transformations'. What follows further are empirical analy

Object Details

• Alternative title: Soziale Interessen und Transformation: Polen in vergleichender Perspektive
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 51 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; Bd. 98-002

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Interessenpolitik ; Systemtransformation ; Privatisierung ; Gruppe ; :z Geschichte 1981-1995 ; Polen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 1998
• Creator: Adamski, Wladyslaw
• Contributor: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-116857
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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