The Power of the Powerless: The Workers Defense Committee (KOR) (Polen in Europa) - Hardcover

Skórzyński, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3506798162 ISBN 13: 9783506798169

Verlag: Brill Deutschland GmbH, 2025

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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.

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

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• Verlag: Brill Deutschland GmbH
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3506798162
• ISBN 13: 9783506798169
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434
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