Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

• Author(s): Jason Sharman,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 192
• ISBN_10: 1134400438
  ISBN_13: 9781134400430
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Regional Studies , History / Modern / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / General ,

Description:... 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.