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a personal perspective on sixty years of Polish history

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Bearing Witness: A Personal Perspective on Sixty Years of Polish History
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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Bearing Witness: A Personal Perspective on Sixty Years of Polish History
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents

From the author
Marked by the past
A sociologist and a witness to history
1939 : war breaks out
Shut off from life : the Lodz ghetto
Warsaw in the 1940s : the ghetto and the "Aryan side"
The Warsaw ghetto
Occupied Warsaw
Szmalcownicy and heroes
First decade of communism
Poland or France?
My universities
1956 : workers' councils, Gozdzik, and Gomulka
First steps in academia
Workers' councils : the case of Zeran
Yugoslavia : oddities and infatuation
1968 and the aftermath : excluded from society
Forced into unemployment
Emotional aspect of the march purges
GUS : the job I didn't want and the research I dreamed of
Up against the censors
Varna congress : changing Soviet research priorities
Postdoctoral qualification
Martial law : signs of social disintegration
Institute of crime problems : solidarity and the people in power
Martial law and the ghosts of the war
The state of society as reflected by the suicide rate
Polish Academy of Sciences and adventures with research
An unusual grant
Empirical research in a free Poland : being part of the research community
Democratic Poland : winners and losers
1989 : the round table
The costs of transition
Social disorganization and corruption
Corruption : personal experience
Bribing the Mexican police
Greasing palms in a communist hospital
Greasing palms in a postcommunist hospital : pay or perish
A view from abroad : food for thought
On the go : by rail and air
Airport adventure : hijack attempt
In France
In Ukraine
In China
In Vietnam
In Japan
In Cuba
In Israel
about Poland
In Italy
In Germany
America : the Polish perspective
Ethnic hodgepodge : a politically correct family
Facts of life : cops and robbers, lost and found, and the pernicious
Effects of too much alcohol
Closing reflections : the world has changed.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in 2009 by Oficyna Naukowa"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301.092, B
Library of Congress
HM479.J37 O2513 2015, HM479.J37O2513 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 260 pages
Number of pages
260

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31056080M
Internet Archive
bearingwitnesspe0000jaro
ISBN 13
9781412855952
LCCN
2014042812

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