This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.
- ISBN10 0203438906
- ISBN13 9780203438909
- Publish Date 26 June 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Routledge Curzon
- Format eBook
- Pages 182
- Language English