Poland: Socialism for Everyman?

  • George Kolankiewicz
  • Ray Taras
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Abstract

More than most nations, Poland provides a most pertinent example of the role that historical consciousness may play in a nation’s emergence from subservience. Partitioned for nearly 150 years, Poland came to depend heavily upon history and tradition as a means of maintaining its national integrity in the face of its official dismemberment. Its subsequent experience has done little to modify the intensity of ‘living history’, that continual appropriation of the past by the citizens of the present.1 Historical controversies have sustained an immediacy not always intelligible to the members of the more historically phlegmatic nations.

Keywords

Political Institution Political Culture Party Member Political Knowledge Political Efficacy 
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