This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.
| ISBN: | 9780415306690 |
| Publication date: | 26th June 2003 |
| Author: | Jason Sharman |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies |
| Genres: |
Far-left political ideologies and movements Political oppression and persecution European history |