This text examines the development of the Polish environmental movement as a lens through which to understand the reconstruction of civil society and the adaptation of a social movement to new political institutions. The book focuses on the period between Solidarity's formation in 1980 and the first years after the establishment of a Solidarity-led government in 1989. It argues that environmental groups, as a form of independent collective action aimed at changing official policies and institutions, were part of the larger social transformations that undermined communist rule.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-13
9780231105408
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96757468
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Barbara Hicks
Publication Name
Environmental Politics in Poland: a Social Movement between Regime and Opposition