Rebuilding Poland

by Padraic Kenney

Book Overview

The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801432871
• ISBN13: 9780801432873
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher