Interview with Karol Modzelewski, 1991
Interview with Karol Modzelewski, 1991
Author(s): Andrzej W. Tymowski, Karol ModzelewskiSubject(s): Civil Society, History of ideas, Political history, Government/Political systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Modzelewski; Balcerowicz Plan; Solidarność; social movements; shock therapy;
Summary/Abstract: This is an edited version of an interview conducted in 1991 and first published in New Politics 4, no. 2 (1993): 155–72. The editors of EEPS publish this version after the recent death of Karol Modzelewski, 1937–2019. In the 1991 interview, Modzelewski reflected on the difference between Solidarność 1980–1981 as a mass social movement and the very much changed Solidarność that in 1989 formed the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc. His comments have a premonitory relevance for Polish politics today.
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 33/2019
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 806-816
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
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