Download or read book Rewolucja written by Robert E. Blobaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this watershed period. Drawing on extensive archival research to explore the history of Poland's revolutionary upheavals, Blobaum departs from traditional interpretations of these events as peripheral to an essentially Russian movement that reached a climax in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He demonstrates that, although Polish independence was not formally recognized until after World War I, the social and political conditions necessary for nationhood were established in the years around 1905.

Download or read book Dawne rz dy a Rewolucja written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by Wydawnictwo Estymator. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Książka ta stanowi klucz do wszelkiej refleksji nad problemem zmiany społecznej i rewolucji. Zawarte w niej treści tworzą podwaliny współczesnej politologii i socjologii. Co ważne, większość spostrzeżeń Tocqueville'a została potwierdzona przez współczesną naukę. Osią rozważań Tocqueville'a są pytania o przyczyny wybuchu Rewolucji Francuskiej i jej skutki. Autor pokazuje, że rewolucja nie tyle tworzy nowy ustrój, ile wydobywa na jaw i utrwala rozwiązania społeczne i instytucjonalne, które istniały już przed nią. Argumentuje, że ciągłość wygrywa tu z retoryką gwałtownej przemiany, z ideologią postępu i oświecenia. Pokazuje, że wielki marsz ku równości może prowadzić w kierunku wręcz przeciwnym. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) był jednym z najważniejszych myślicieli w XIX wieku. Był zwolennikiem demokracji, ale dostrzegał też jej liczne słabości. Uważał, że godna poparcia jest tylko taka demokracja, która nie zagraża wolności i autonomii jednostki. KSIĘGA PIERWSZA I. Sprzeczne sądy o Rewolucji były już w chwili jej powstania. II. Ostatecznym celem Rewolucji nie było zniesienie władzy religijnej, a osłabienie politycznej. III. Dlaczego Rewolucja francuska, będąc rewolucją polityczną, przypominała przewroty religijne? IV. Cała niemal Europa miała jednakowe instytucje i one wszędzie upadły. V. Jaki był rezultat Rewolucji? KSIĘGA DRUGA I. Dlaczego prawa feudalne zostały znienawidzone przez lud francuski więcej, niż gdzie indziej? II. Centralizacja administracyjna jest dziełem dawnych rządów, nie zaś Rewolucji lub cesarstwa. III. Tak zwana opieka rządowa jest wytworem dawnych rządów. IV. Sprawiedliwość administracyjna i wyjęcie urzędników z pod sądu były instytucjami przedrewolucyjnymi. V. Jak mogła centralizacja ogarnąć dawne władze i zastąpić je nie burząc ich. VI. O zwyczajach administracyjnych za dawnych rządów. VII. Już przed Rewolucją Paryż miał przewagę nad prowincjami i wchłaniał całość państwa, jak nigdzie w Europie. VIII. Francja stała się krajem, którego mieszkańcy byli najbardziej podobnymi do siebie. IX. Ludzie, tak do siebie podobni, dzielili się na drobne gromadki obce i obojętne dla siebie. X. Jakim sposobem zniesienie wolności politycznej i rozdział klas wytworzyły prawie wszystkie choroby społeczne, które zburzyły dawny ustrój. XI. O wolności szczególnej, która spotykała się za dawnych rządów i o jej wpływie na Rewolucję. XII. Nie zważając na postęp cywilizacji, położenie włościanina we Francji gorsze było w XVIII w. niż w XIII. KSIĘGA TRZECIA I. Około połowy XVIII w. literaci stali się głównymi mężami stanu we Francji i jakie stąd wynikły następstwa. II. Jakim sposobem niewiara mogła stać się ogólną i przeważną namiętnością Francuzów w XVIII w. i jaki wpływ wywarło to na Rewolucję? III. Francuzi dążyli do reform wprzód niż do swobód. IV. O tym, że panowanie Ludwika XIV należało do najszczęśliwszych okresów dawnej monarchii i w jaki sposób okoliczność ta przyśpieszyła Rewolucję? V. Jak doprowadzono lud do powstania, chcąc ulżyć jego położeniu? VI. O pewnych sposobach, którymi rząd zakończył wychowanie rewolucyjne ludu. VII. Rewolucję polityczną poprzedził doniosły przewrót administracyjny i jakie to miało następstwa. VIII. Wszystko poprzednie doprowadziło samo z siebie do Rewolucji.

Download or read book The Triumph of Broken Promises written by Fritz Bartel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people. Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and communist governments to expand their social contracts as they raced to deliver their people a better life. But the economic shocks of the 1970s made promises of better living untenable on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Energy and financial markets placed immense pressure on governments to discipline their social contracts. Rather than make promises, political leaders were forced to break them. In a sweeping narrative, The Triumph of Broken Promises tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy.

Download or read book Rewolucja written by Robert E. Blobaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emancipation of the peasantry and mass migration to urban centers transformed Polish society, and by 1905 the Polish industrial economy was in a state of crisis exacerbated by Russian trade policies. Although most Poles may have been reconciled to Russian control, all groups from conservative clericalists to revolutionary socialists united against Russia's attempts to eradicate the Polish language, religion, history, and culture. Blobaum describes how a bitter boycott of the russified school system focused attention on education as an aspect of nation-building. He also shows that the ambivalent response of the Catholic church to popular unrest resulted in an unprecedented alienation and secularization of Polish political culture. A complex array of nationalist and socialist allegiances developed among peasants and industrial workers, and the general strikes of 1905 signaled the emergence of a nationwide labor movement.

Download or read book Rewolucja written by Robert Blobaum and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blobaum argues that, despite subsequent Russian repression, the revolution contributed to establishing the conditions for a modern civil society in Poland.

Download or read book Cultural Formations of Post Communism written by Michael D. Kennedy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733 1795 written by Richard Butterwick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth--one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealth experienced. Far from seeing it as a failed state, he shows the ways in which it overcame the stranglehold of Russia and briefly regained its sovereignty, the crowning success of which took place on 3 May 1791--the passing of the first Constitution of modern Europe.

Download or read book An Index to Stra The Guard written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Nationalism and the First World War written by L. Rosenthal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Nationalism and the First World War is an edited volume dedicated to a transnational study of the features of the turn-of-the-century nationalism, its manifestations in social and political arenas and the arts, and its influence on the development of the global-scale conflict that was the First World War.

Download or read book The Rise of Bolshevism and its Impact on the Interwar International Order written by Valentine Lomellini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the international impact of Bolshevism in the period between the two World Wars. It explores both the significance of the ‘Bolshevik threat’ in European countries and colonies, as well as its spread through the circulation of ideas and people during this period. Focusing on the interplay between international relations and domestic politics, the volume analyses the rise of Bolshevism on the international stage, incorporating insights from India and China. The chapters show how the interwar international order was challenged by the ideology, which infiltrated a range of political societies. While it was incapable of overthrowing national systems, Bolshevism constituted a credible threat, which favoured the spread of fascist and nationalist trends. Offering the first detailed account of the Bolshevik danger at an international level, the book draws on multi-national and multiarchival research to examine how the peril of Bolshevism paradoxically allowed a stabilization of the post-World War I Versailles system.

Download or read book Books Are Weapons written by Siobahn Doucette and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them—the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive examination of the Polish opposition’s independent, often underground, press and its crucial role in the events leading to the historic Round Table and popular elections of 1989. While other studies have emphasized the role that the Solidarity movement played in bringing about civil society in 1980-1981, Doucette instead argues that the independent press was the essential binding element in the establishment of a true civil society during the mid- to late 1980s. Based on a thorough investigation of underground publications and interviews with important activists of the period from 1976 to 1989, Doucette shows how the independent press, rooted in the long Polish tradition of well-organized resistance to foreign occupation, reshaped this tradition to embrace nonviolent civil resistance while creating a network that evolved from a small group of dissidents into a broad opposition movement with cross-national ties and millions of sympathizers. It was the galvanizing force in the resistance to communism and the rebuilding of Poland’s democratic society.

Download or read book Poles Jews and the Politics of Nationality written by Joshua D. Zimmerman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-01-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards through the lens of the Holocaust and the ethnic rivalries that escalated in the period between the two world wars. Critical to the history of Polish-Jewish relations, however, is the period prior to World War I when the emergence of mass electoral politics in Czarist Russia led to the consolidation of modern political parties. Using sources published in Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian, Joshua D. Zimmerman has compiled a full-length English-language study of the relations between the two dominant progressive movements in Russian Poland. He examines the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), which sought social emancipation and equal civil rights for minority nationalities, including Jews, under a democratic Polish republic, and the Jewish Labor Bund, which declared that Jews were a nation distinct from Poles and Russians and advocated cultural autonomy. By 1905, the PPS abandoned its call for Jewish assimilation, and recognized Jews as a separate nationality. Zimmerman demonstrates persuasively that Polish history in Czarist Russia cannot be fully understood without studying the Jewish influence and that Jewish history was equally infused with the Polish influence.

Download or read book Language of Conflict written by Natalia Knoblock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns of public discourse in Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of the Ukrainian Crisis in 2014. It investigates the trends in language aggression, evaluation, persuasion and other elements of conflict communication related to the situation. Through the analysis of the linguistic features of salient discourses and prevalent narratives constructed by different social groups, Language of Conflict reflects competing worldviews of various stakeholders in this conflict and presents multiple, often contradictory, visions of the circumstances. Contributors from Ukraine, Russia and beyond investigate discursive representations of the most important aspects of the crisis: its causes and goals, participants and the values and ideologies of the opposing factions. They focus on categorization, stance, framing, (de)legitimation, manipulation and coping strategies while analysing the ways in which the stress produced by social discord, economic hardship, and violence shapes public discourse. Primarily focusing on informal communication and material gathered from online sources, the collection provides insight into the ways people directly affected by the crisis think about and respond to it. The volume acknowledges the communicators' active role in constructing the (often incompatible) discursive images of the conflict and concentrates on the conscious and strategic use of linguistic resources in negative and aggressive communication.

Download or read book Working on Rights written by Anna Delius and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the light of a globally dynamic human rights discourse. The study argues that the democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland were both variants of emancipatory and democracy-oriented social movements with global interconnections that emerged in the 1960s. It reveals that the demands for free and independent trade unions, which in both countries became a flashpoint in the fight for broader democratic demands, was not always discussed in rights terms, but rather presented as an inevitable necessity. At the same time, these labor movements and their intellectual allies morally delegitimized state repression against workers and thereby employed the concepts of democracy, participation, solidarity, progress and eventually, rights. Integrating the history of two European semi-peripheric societies into a broader narrative, this book is relevant for readers interested in global labor history, human rights history and the history of democratization in Europe in the late twentieth century.

Download or read book Social System Rationality and Revolution written by Leszek Nowak and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Political Coexistence of the United States with Cuba 1961 1975 written by Krzysztof Siwek and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the phenomenon of the political coexistence of the United States with Cuba that developed between the beginning of the John F. Kennedy administration and the Cold War détente of the mid-1970s. It is revealed that due to the US global commitments, related to the Cold War and the risk of confrontation with the Soviet Union, the political approach of Washington to the Fidel Castro’s Cuba constituted a perpetuated condition of suspense between war and peace. Despite the failure of both the US hostile policies and diplomatic dialogue with Castro, the mutual tension remained under control of recurrent crisis management course. Ultimately, the US attempts to discipline and moderate Cuban policies led to an actual political coexistence between the two countries, establishing a long-term dynamics of the US attitude toward Cuba for the following decades. By combining a historical approach with political and international analysis through broad reference to primary sources, the study offers an insightful investigation of the global processes affecting the U.S. – Cuban dynamics of political coexistence. This volume will be of great value to those studying American history, 20th century history, international relations and political science across North America, Europe and other parts of the world.

Download or read book Empowering Revolution written by Gregory F. Domber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland's politically tumultuous steps toward democratic revolution. In this groundbreaking history, Gregory F. Domber examines American policy toward Poland and its promotion of moderate voices within the opposition, while simultaneously addressing the Soviet and European influences on Poland's revolution in 1989. With a cast including Reagan, Gorbachev, and Pope John Paul II, Domber charts American support of anticommunist opposition groups--particularly Solidarity, the underground movement led by future president Lech Wa&322;&281;sa--and highlights the transnational network of Polish emigres and trade unionists that kept the opposition alive. Utilizing archival research and interviews with Polish and American government officials and opposition leaders, Domber argues that the United States empowered a specific segment of the Polish opposition and illustrates how Soviet leaders unwittingly fostered radical, pro-democratic change through their policies. The result is fresh insight into the global impact of the Polish pro-democracy movement.