Solidarność by Maciej Zurowski

Solidarność by Maciej Zurowski

This high-profile and award-winning work shows the organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarność revolution of 1980–81 and thus debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers ‘from the outside’. Siermiński traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organisation developed by the Polish working class during earlier protests, strikes, and occupations. The author convincingly demonstrates that Solidarność was driven by the working class's own aims, experiences and revolutionary instinct—often in direct opposition to the efforts of intellectuals to contain its radicalism.

Michał Siermiński, Ph.D. (1989) is a research fellow at the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought. He works mainly on the history of the People's Republic of Poland and other countries of the Soviet bloc.

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ISBN 13	9789004690158
ISBN 10	9004690158
Title	Solidarność
Author	Maciej Zurowski
Series	Historical Materialism Book Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Brill
Year published	2026-04-22
Number of pages	412
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