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Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945?1950 Hardcover - 1997
by Kenney, Padraic Jeremiah
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- Title Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945?1950
- Author Kenney, Padraic Jeremiah
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-02-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0801432871.G
- ISBN 9780801432873 / 0801432871
- Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.26 x 1.09 in (23.44 x 15.90 x 2.77 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1650
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Communism - Poland - History, Poland - Social conditions - 1945-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96021388
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.943
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The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Re-building Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a social revolution, in which workers expressed their hopes for dramatic social change and influenced the evolution - and eventual downfall - of the communist regime. Kenney compares Lodz, Poland's largest manufacturing center, and Wroclaw, a city rebuilt as Polish upon the ruins of wartime destruction. In the collective reaction of workers in Lodz and the individualism of those in Wroclaw, Kenney locates the beginnings of the end of the communist regime. Losing the battle for worker identity, the communists placed their hopes in labor competition, which ultimately left the regime hostage to a resistant work force and an overextended economy incapable of reform.