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About this book
Introduction
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.
Keywords
capital communism crime globalization Marx police revolution secret service service transformation
Bibliographic information
- Book Title Privatizing the Police-State
- Book Subtitle The Case of Poland
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Authors
M. Los
Andrzej Zybertowicz
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511699
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection Social Sciences (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-0-333-73613-5
- Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-40851-1
- eBook ISBN 978-0-230-51169-9
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages XX, 270
- Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general
Political Science
Sociology, general
Policing
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Reviews
'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