Publisher's Synopsis
This volume in the Marxist regime series focuses on Poland, examining and evaluating critically the application of Marxist doctrine in its society, assessing its interpretations, its successes and failures.;The study covers Poland's history, political traditions, economic traditions, social structure and social welfare as well as questioning power and policies.;The study includes an examination of the significance of Poland's position in central Europe, its chequered post-World War II experience and the sixteen-month period of the free trade union Solidarity's open existence, a dangerously long aberration in the experience of communist systems.
