Table of Contents:
  • Patronage and Corruption in Communist Poland
  • Part One. The Emergence of Opposition
  • The First Systemic Crisis
  • "Living Parallel to the System" : The Solidarity Generation
  • A Line of Blood
  • An Opposition Emerges
  • Independent Organisations and Opposition
  • Part Two. The Solidarity Revolution
  • The Solidarity Explosion
  • Social Solidarity and the Victory of Solidarnosc
  • The Solidarity Revolution
  • The Solidarity Offensive
  • Bydgoszcz : the Turning Point
  • The Party at War with itself.