Volume 30, Number 14 · September 29, 1983
Poland's Eternal Return
By Martin Malia
God's Playground: A History of Poland; Vol. I, The Origins to 1795; Vol. II, 1795 to the Present
by Norman Davies
Columbia University Press, Vol. II, 725 pp., $75.00 complete
A Republic of Nobles: Studies in Polish History to 1864
edited and translated by J.K. Fedorowicz
Cambridge University Press, 290 pp., $37.50
The American and European Revolutions, 1776-1848: Sociopolitical and Ideological Aspects
edited by Jaroslaw Pelenski
University of Iowa Press, 430 pp., $17.50
Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism: The Case of Poland
by Andrzej Walicki
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 426 pp., $34.50
Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939: The Crisis of Constitutional Government
by Anthony Polonsky
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 572 pp., $24.00
Zionism in Poland: The Formative Years, 1915-1926
by Ezra Mendelsohn
Yale University Press, 376 pp., $37.50
Courier From Warsaw
by Jan Nowak, foreward by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Wayne State University Press, 477 pp., $24.95
The Mind of John Paul II: Origins of His Thought and Action
by George H. Williams
Seabury Press, 432 pp., $26.95
Count-Down: The Polish Upheavals of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1980...
by Jakub Karpinski, translated by Olga Amsterdamska, by Gene M. Moore
Karz-Cohl, 214 pp., $29.95
Poland: Genesis of a Revolution
edited by Abraham Brumberg
Random House/Vintage, 324 pp., $20.00; $7.95 (paper)
Solidarity, The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980-1981
by Alain Touraine, by Jan Strzelecki et al., translated by David Denby
Cambridge University Press, 256 pp., $19.95
"Poland Under Jaruzelski"
edited by Leopold Labedz
Survey magazine, $11.00 each number
'Solidarity, the first free labor union in a communist country,' the Western press has begun most commentaries on Poland since the great strike of August 1980. True enough, but by no means the whole truth. During sixteen months in the open, and now twenty months underground, the union Solidarity appeared increasingly in two other guises as well: since its employer was not a mere capitalist but a communist monolith, it inevitably became a movement for the emancipation of all of society from the party-controlled state; and since this regimen was a foreign imposition, it edged toward being a movement of national liberation from Soviet Russia.
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