Books Are Weapons The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism 1st Edition by Siobahn Doucette ISBN 082296502X 9780822965022

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Author:  Siobahn Doucette 

Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism 1st Edition: 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.

 

Books Are Weapons: The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction
1. GENESIS The Summer of 1976 to the Summer of 1977
2. SPREAD The Summer of 1977 to the Summer of 1980
3. TACTICS 1978–1979
4. BURST The Summer of 1980
5. PROLIFERATION September 1980 to December 13, 1981
6. THE FIRST SOLIDARITY NATIONAL CONGRESS, 1981
7. SURVIVAL Martial Law, December 1981 to July 1983
8. CRISIS AND TRANSITION The Mid-1980s
9. PLURALISM Late 1986 to 1988
10. VICTORY
Conclusion

 

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