The Power of the Powerless

The Workers Defense Committee (KOR)

Jan Skórzyński (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 420 Seiten

2025 | 2025
Brill | Schöningh (Verlag)
978-3-506-79816-9 (ISBN)

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The Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) was founded in 1976 in Poland. Its primal objective was to help people persecuted by the state. A year later it was transformed into the Committee for the Social Self-Defence 'KOR', which took up the continuous struggle for civil rights. Several hundred activists of the dissent movement created a parallel world in which the germs of civic society emerged - uncensored press and publishing houses, independent groups of students and farmers, the Flying University and free trade unions.Thus, KOR's founders created the new model of opposition in the communist system: acting openly in the framework of the law, founded on human and civil rights, non-violent, focused on reconstructing social ties and social consciousness, inciting social activity. This evolutionary strategy set the direction of democratic transition in Poland.

Jan Skórzynski is a historian, political scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Polen in Europa
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Schlagworte	Civil Society • Committee • communism • Defense • Democratic opposition • PIEU • Poland • Power • powerless • resistance • Self-Defence • Skorzynski • Workers
ISBN-10	3-506-79816-2 / 3506798162
ISBN-13	978-3-506-79816-9 / 9783506798169
Zustand	Neuware