Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

Leszczyński, Adam

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“…Another significant factor is gross domestic product (GDP) which, in 1980, amounted to 3,730 USD, while in the Soviet Union to 4,190 USD, and in the Federal Republic of Germany to 13,590 USD. These factors undoubtedly affected consumption of technical products in the PRL; its reliable indicator is the number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants: Poland -32, Czechoslovakia -102, FRG -291 (data for the year 1975: Leszczyński 2013). As the goods in question also comprised imported products, most of which (home electronics, LP records, audio cassettes, etc.)…”

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Copy (the Music) and Share (the Tape). On the Institutionalization of “Piracy” in the Polish People’s Republic

Brzostek

2024

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The article concerns practices related to the so-called the “second circulation” of musical materials in the Polish People’s Republic. This phenomenon is studied in relation to the issues of contemporary economics, technological progress and, above all, issues of social institutionalization. The author considers the problems of reception of popular music in the country behind the Iron Curtain and methods of providing access to various types of recordings and their official and alternative tracks.

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Copy (the Music) and Share (the Tape). On the Institutionalization of “Piracy” in the Polish People’s Republic

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2024

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“…More nuanced and less morally charged approaches to the communist period in Polish social sciences, including history and sociology, are only slowly emerging. Of particular interest to me are those of them which try to analyze the developments of the communist period in terms of modernization projects like Jakub Majmurek (2010), Adam Leszczyński (2017) or Agata Zysiak (2016). Another important perspective, which was until recently considerably marginalized in the Polish social sciences, is the wider globally-oriented approach, one which is looking at the national dynamics in the context of broader processes and trends.…”

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Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: A structural comparison between 1975 and 2019 Poland

Zarycki

2020

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This article proposes to look at the current moment in the recent history of the so-called Central-European countries, with Poland as a critical case study, through a structural comparison with an earlier historical cycle, that is one of the first three decades of the communist rule in the region. Thus, I propose to compare the social and economic situation in Poland of circa 1975 with that of 2019, so 30 years after the establishment of a new given political order (30 years after 1945 and 1989 respectively). The paper will offer a general overview of the trajectory of Poland in the post-war era, based primarily on the perspective of the world-system theory and that of the critical sociology of elites, one which will also point to the essential structural contexts of the post-communist dynamics of society. This paper will be based on a basic observation: even if both the 1970s and late 2010s can be considered as periods of relative political stabilization and economic growth for the region as such, and Poland in particular, these countries are, at the same time, subjected to a considerable and even increasing economic dependence on the Western core. In the conclusions, it is argued that the proposed comparative approach, taking into account both an earlier historical cycle and the broader structural dependency of the region, may allow to cast a new light on the nature of current dynamics in Polish politics as well as on the possible future trajectories of the country.

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Global Context of Knowledge Production in the Peripheries

Zarycki

2022

The Polish Elite and Language Sciences

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Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

Abstract: 14 The difference in income levels (and domestic comfort) between Eastern and WesternEurope goes back much further than the Industrial Revolution, but it started to increase rapidly at that time.

Cited by 7 publications

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Copy (the Music) and Share (the Tape). On the Institutionalization of “Piracy” in the Polish People’s Republic

Copy (the Music) and Share (the Tape). On the Institutionalization of “Piracy” in the Polish People’s Republic

Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: A structural comparison between 1975 and 2019 Poland

Global Context of Knowledge Production in the Peripheries

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