The Private Revolution: Women in Polish Underground Movement

Author: Belinda Brown

Hera Trust, London, 2003
In association with CEU/IFiS PAN Centre for Social Studies, Warsaw

Contents

Preface: Untangling the public and private realms

1. Resistance in Polish history
2. The roots of resistance
3. Women and the private sphere
4. Transition to democracy
5. Polish women and politics
6. The business of politics

Appendix A: The interviews

Appendix B: The informations

Bibliography, index and the biographical note on the author

Edited extracts from students' MA dissertations are published in English by IFiS press.

Democracies, Markets, Institutions: Global Tendencies in Local Contexts

IFiS Publishers Warsaw, 2002

Editors
Sławomir Kapralski
Paul Vincent Smith

Contents

In Memoriam

Introduction

1. Mikhail Beliaev, Institutional Design and Consolidation of New Democracies
2. Gueorgi Kossinets, True Colours of the Allies: Analysis of Voting Patterns in the Polish Sejm
3. Viara Djoreva, Political Protest as Collective Behaviour: Seeing beyond the Crowd (A Case Study of the Political Protests in Sofia in the Beginning of 1997)
4. Kemal Seitveliev, State and Locality in Post Soviet Crimea
5. Tatiana Mizguireva, Between Voice and Exit: National Response to the Crisis of Wage Arrears, Russia, 1992-2000
6. Tuuli Toomere, Value Change in Post-Communist Poland and Estonia
7. Marina Karlina, An Analysis of the Russian Religious Market: The Competition Strategies of the Russian Orthodox Church, Seventh Day Adventist Church, and Scientology
8. Igor Potapov, The New Independent Press under the Democratic Transition
9. Valentina Kouziakina, The Status of Education in Modern Russian Society
10. Natalia Genova, Bulgaria between ‘Having’ and ‘Being.’ An Information Society: Individualisation in Light of Social and Technological Innovations
11. Paulina Trevena, The Sources of Stereotypes: Germans, Russians, and Jews in the Eyes of Young Poles

Biographical notes on the Contributors

Reformulations: Markets, Policies and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe

IFiS Publishers Warsaw, 2000

Contents

1. Sławomir Kapralski and Susan C Pearce (eds): Reformulations and Their living Contexts
2. Alex Foster: The New Economy
3. Lilia Kouzmina: Informal Networks and Their Impact on Marketization in Russia
4. Alexei Sizov: Small Businesses in Russia and Poland :A Comparative Analysis
5. Gavin Rae: Social Democracy and Recomposition of Polish Politics
6. Dorota Lepianka: The Polish People and the Poor-The Society’s Perception of and Attitudes Towards the Impoverished
7. Michał Sitek: Formal and Informal Institutions in the Transformation of the Polish Health Care System
8. Petra Vojtěchovská: Marriage and Parenthood in the Eyes of the Young Czech Generation
9. Veronika Bajt: Invisible Nationalism: How National Rituals Perpetuate National Identity
10. Mirosław Bieniecki: Identity of Borderland People in the Bug Region

Biographical notes on the Contributors

Post-Communist Transformations

IFiS Publishers Warsaw, 1998

Contents

1. David Dornisch, Pascoe Elvin and Richard Kania (eds): A new Generation of Perspectives on Post-Communist Transformations
2. Ingrida Geciene: Intelligentsia and Entrepreneurs in the Transformational Society of Lithuania
3. Gabriella Jeremias: The Possible Adaptation of Dutch Drug Policy to Hungarian Conditions
4. Ekaterina Moryakova: Mahallah: The Traditional Muslim Neighbourhood Community in the Development of Uzbek Civil Society
5. Edita Petronejivic: Streets of Protest: Space, Action and Actors of Protest 96/97 in Belgrade
6. Marketa Rulikova: The Impact of Post-Communist Transformation on the Economic and Social Behaviour of the Czech Family
7. David Stulik: Public Perception of the European integration process I Poland and the Czech Republic: A Comparaive Analysis

Biographical notes on the Contributors