Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2023
378 pages
978-1-80010-857-8 (ISBN)
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A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development.
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TOMEK GRABOWSKI (PhD, Berkeley) is an independent scholar and a democratic activist in Poland.
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Content
Introduction
Part One: Individualism and Social Theory
Chapter 1: Four Discourses of Individualism
Chapter 2: Individualism Reconsidered
Chapter 3: Theories of Social Individuation and A Way Forward
Part Two: Individualism and Democracy in Poland
Chapter 4: The Democratic Promise of Western Poland
Chapter 5: Individualism Disaggregated: The Wroclaw and Lódz Elites in A Cultural Perspective
Part Three: Rupture and Reintegration
Chapter 6: Rupture, 1945-1948
Chapter 7: The Communist Party and the Taming of the Frontier, 1949-1955
Chapter 8: A Quasi-Reformation: The Catholic Church in the Western Territories, 1945-1956
Chapter 9: The Socializers, 1965-1980
Conclusion: The Resilience of Individualism
Appendix 1: Selected Socioeconomic Development Indicators for Wroclaw and Lódz at the Beginning of the Democratic Era (1994)
Appendix 2: Interview Questionnaire for Sorting Out Individual and Corporate Identities
Appendix 3: List of Interviewees together with Their Classification into Two Main Identity Types
Index
Part One: Individualism and Social Theory
Chapter 1: Four Discourses of Individualism
Chapter 2: Individualism Reconsidered
Chapter 3: Theories of Social Individuation and A Way Forward
Part Two: Individualism and Democracy in Poland
Chapter 4: The Democratic Promise of Western Poland
Chapter 5: Individualism Disaggregated: The Wroclaw and Lódz Elites in A Cultural Perspective
Part Three: Rupture and Reintegration
Chapter 6: Rupture, 1945-1948
Chapter 7: The Communist Party and the Taming of the Frontier, 1949-1955
Chapter 8: A Quasi-Reformation: The Catholic Church in the Western Territories, 1945-1956
Chapter 9: The Socializers, 1965-1980
Conclusion: The Resilience of Individualism
Appendix 1: Selected Socioeconomic Development Indicators for Wroclaw and Lódz at the Beginning of the Democratic Era (1994)
Appendix 2: Interview Questionnaire for Sorting Out Individual and Corporate Identities
Appendix 3: List of Interviewees together with Their Classification into Two Main Identity Types
Index
