Creating Solidarity: The Religious Foundations of the Polish Social Movement
Creating Solidarity: The Religious Foundations of the Polish Social Movement

Summary/Abstract: Recent scholarship on the origins of the Solidarity movement has centered on the question of attribution: "Who done it: workers, intellectuals, or someone else?" The temperature of the debate is rising and the battle lines are drawn. On one side , there are those who argue that the workers were the "prime motivators" of the remarkable social opposition in Poland in 1980-81. On the other side of the barricade, there are those contending either that intellectuals played a key role, or that mobilization was a result of the activities of civil society. Class terms have dominated the discourse and intellectual affiliations have colored analyses as well. Is this debate a manifestation of academic internecine conflict, or is it driven by a theoretically important research question? [...]

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