The Polish Solidarity Movement

Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-16940-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. This study undertakes the first full historical comparison of the Polish movement with the ideals and institutions of democracy achieved in the last three centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cirtautas, Arista M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 The charismatic presentation of natural rights; Chapter 2 Formal natural rights and the American Revolution; Chapter 3 Substantive natural rights and the French Revolution; Chapter 4 Natural rights and liberal capitalist development; Chapter 5 The Marxist–Leninist response to natural rights and liberal capitalism; Chapter 6 Solidarity’s articulation of natural rights; Chapter 7 Solidarity and liberal capitalism; Epilogue;

Über Autor(innen)

Arista Maria Cirtautas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.