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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b9700627.
- catalog coverage "Poland Economic conditions 1945-1981.".
- catalog coverage "Poland Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-352) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Continuities in Twentieth-Century Polish Society -- pt. I. Revolution in the Factories, 1945-1947. 1. The Struggle for the Factory. 2. On Strike in Lodz. 3. Wroclaw: Communism's Frontier -- pt. II. The Party's Revolution, 1948-1950. 4. Social Foundations of the Stalinist System. 5. The Rise and Fall of the Labor Hero. 6. The Battle for Working-Class Identity -- Conclusion: State, Society, and the Stalinist Revolution.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xv, 360 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801432871 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Poland Economic conditions 1945-1981.".
- catalog spatial "Poland Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog spatial "Poland".
- catalog subject "338.9438 20".
- catalog subject "Communism Poland History.".
- catalog subject "HX315.7.A6 K46 1997".
- catalog subject "Working class Poland History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Continuities in Twentieth-Century Polish Society -- pt. I. Revolution in the Factories, 1945-1947. 1. The Struggle for the Factory. 2. On Strike in Lodz. 3. Wroclaw: Communism's Frontier -- pt. II. The Party's Revolution, 1948-1950. 4. Social Foundations of the Stalinist System. 5. The Rise and Fall of the Labor Hero. 6. The Battle for Working-Class Identity -- Conclusion: State, Society, and the Stalinist Revolution.".
- catalog title "Rebuilding Poland : workers and Communists, 1945-1950 / Padraic Kenney.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".