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Privatizing the Police-State: The Case of Poland de M. Los

Privatizing the Police-State: The Case of Poland

Autor M. Los, Andrzej Zybertowicz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 aug 2000
This is the first book that documents and analyses the paramount role of secret services in the decomposition of the communist system and the conversion of its elites into new capitalists. The surge of civil society in 1980s Poland prompted a parallel expansion of the police-state apparatus. The book traces the subsequent reconstruction and privatization of social, political and material resources of the police-state and shows how these covert operations shaped other, more visible aspects of the East/Central European transformation. A Note from the Authors: Since the publication of this book, the events in Poland and elsewhere have demonstrated the extraordinary influence and longevity of the power networks spawned by the communist police state apparatus and its eventual privatization. There is new evidence uncovered almost daily, whose interpretation would not be feasible without the conceptual and historical framework elaborated first in this book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333736135
ISBN-10: 0333736133
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: XX, 270 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:2000
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Tables Foreword: Gary T. Marx Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I: OPENING CONSIDERATIONS Introduction Conceptual and Methodological Issues PART II: THE 1980s: THE POST-TOTALITARIAN POLICE/PARTY STATE? Anatomy of the Police-State State Crime and Cover-Up Operations The Role of Secret Services in the Solidarity Revolution PART III: AFTER COMMUNISM: THE POSTHUMOUS LIFE OF THE POLICE-STATE Capital Conversion Process Transforming the Police-State Privatizing the Police-State The Failure to Prosecute Communist Crimes PART IV: CONCLUSION Globalization of the Post-Communist Transformation Epilogue Notes References Index

Recenzii

'This study is a model of what scholarship on secrecy-enshrouded topics should be.' - from the Foreword by Gary T. Marx
'...a fascinating and troubling book...[the authors] raise important questions about the nature of privatized Poland.' - Choice
'It is a well-done piece of research that integrates a wealth of information and makes visible some major trends in the transformation process.' - Nils Christie in Slavic Review
'Privatizing the Police-State examines the privatization of the state control apparatus and the impact this has had on post-socialist property relations and on the possibilities for a full break with the authoritarian system. [The authors] use sources gained through years of reading and careful field research.' - Louise Shelley in Demokratizatsiya
'This is a very important book for those who are interested in communism and in the structures of social domination in post-communism. It is important as an attempt to combine contemporary history, political science and institutional/political sociology. It is an important challenge to the prevailing understanding of communist rule, transition and current social and political structures in Poland.' - Andras Sajo in Law and Politics Book Review

Notă biografică

MARIA LOS is Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and an Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of European and Russian Studies and the Department of Legal Studies, Carleton University. Before coming to Canada in 1979, she taught and conducted research at the University of Sheffield, University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her publications include The Second Economy in Marxist States, Communist Ideology, Law and Crime, and Multi-Dimensional Sociology (with A. Podgorecki) and numerous articles in several languages.

ANDRZEJ ZYBERTOWICZ is Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Sociology, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Clare Hall, Cambridge University and Visiting Research Scholar in Law at the Macquirie University, Sydney. His publications include (in Polish) Between Dogma and a Research Program, In the Grip of Secret Services: The Collapse of Communism and the Post-nomenklatura Networks and he has edited several books and published many articles in Polish and English.