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The periods following major political and economic upheavals have usually witnessed an explosion of programmes and debates on how to build a new politico-economic order and how to make sure that the ideals which brought about change be carried out. The collapse of communism in Poland by contrast has triggered little intellectual excitement. There have been no stimulating assessments of factors responsible for the collapse of the communist regime in Poland. Such assessments, it would seem, would be helpful in designing a programme of transition to market-based democracy and in mobilising society to effect such a change. Instead, the transition has been so far carried out in an ideological void.
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Kaminski, B. (1992). Poland: Underpinning the Transition: The Shadow of the Round Table Agreements. In: Saunders, C.T. (eds) Economics and Politics of Transition. East-West European Economic Interaction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12923-2_21
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