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Jesień focuses on the influential figure of Jan Kułakowski. From the mid-1950s until the end of the Cold War, this Belgian-based Polish Christian Democrat served as one of the principal architects of Christian trade unionism, not only in Western Europe but across multiple continents. In 1989, he returned to Poland and became the country’s new ambassador to the European Community; a decade later, he would negotiate the terms of Poland’s accession to the European Union. As Jesień demonstrates, Kułakowski moved away from political Christian Democracy to pluralism in a manner that has heralded the larger trajectory of political Catholicism in Europe.
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Jesień, L. (2018). The Social Virtues of Christian Democracy, European and Polish: The Case of Jan Kułakowski. In: Kosicki, P., Łukasiewicz, S. (eds) Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64087-7_11
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