The Polish Revolution; Solidarity; Third Edition

by Timothy Garton Ash

• ISBN13: 9780300095685
• ISBN10: 0300095686
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-08-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

A brilliant eyewitness and analyst, Timothy Garton Ash in this book offers a gripping account of the Polish shipyard workers who defied their communist rulers in 1980. He describes the emergence of the improbable leader Lech Walesa, the ensuing tumult that culminated in martial law, and -- for this updated edition -- the fate of the Solidarity movement in subsequent years. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of The File, In Europe's Name, History of the Present, and three other volumes of "history of the present": The Polish Revolution, The Uses of Adversity (for which he won the Prix Europeen de l'Essai), and The Magic Lantern, his personal account of the revolutions of 1989, which has now appeared in fifteen languages. He is Director of the European Studies Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. IX
Preface	p. XI
Preface to the Third Edition	p. XIV
Introduction: What Poland? Why Workers? Why 1980?	p. 3
Revolution
Inside the Lenin Shipyard: Workers, August 1980	p. 41
A New Social Contract?	p. 73
Inside the Rzeszow Commune: The Peasants Revolt	p. 117
The Ides of March	p. 142
Democratic Communism?	p. 175
What Partnership?	p. 191
Noble Democracy	p. 216
Confrontation	p. 244
'War'	p. 273
Reflections
What Revolution?	p. 287
Under Western Eyes	p. 318
Postscript to the Third Edition	p. 356
Chronology	p. 382
Abbreviations	p. 391
Notes	p. 395
Bibliography	p. 413
Supplementary Bibliography	p. 417
Index	p. 423
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