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By Shana Penn

ISBN-10: 0472113852

ISBN-13: 9780472113859

"This very important publication explores probably the most pivotal sessions in Polish historical past and offers with a subject approximately everybody else ignored. Shana Penn's learn starts off with an easy query I want I had proposal extra approximately myself: as soon as the management of unity have been arrested throughout the 1981 army coup, who stored the circulate alive over the next months and years? the reply will shock you, as Penn delves into the lives of 7 Polish ladies activists who rose to the decision, set approximately saving a complete political circulation, and in time grew to become themselves into essentially the most strong girls in Poland today."
---Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize

Solidarity's Secret is the 1st ebook to list the the most important but little-known position ladies performed within the upward thrust of an self sufficient press in Poland and within the fall of that country's communist government.

Shana Penn items jointly a decade of interviews with the ladies at the back of the Polish pro-democracy movement-women whose giant contributions have been obscured through the extra public successes in their male counterparts.

Penn finds the tale of ways those courageous girls ran team spirit and the most competition newspaper, Tygodnik Mazowsze, whereas widespread males like Lech Walesa have been underground or in prison in the course of the Eighties martial legislations years. a similar ladies then went directly to play influential roles in post-communist Poland.

Solidarity's Secret offers us a richly particular story-within-a-story-unheard of not just within the West, yet till lately even inside Poland itself-from essentially the most very important eras in smooth history.

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41 1m Jahre 1963 kehrte sich das bisherige extensive wirtschaftliche Wachstum in ein intensives urn. Dies war Ausdruck auch des verstarkten und beschleunigten technischen Fortschritts (VergroBerung des Kapitaleinsatzes je Arbeitsplatz bei konstanter Beschiiftigung zu einer Steigerung der Arbeitsproduktivitiit). Die Entwicklung der Industriedichte (Zahl der Industriebeschiiftigten je 1000 Einwohner) verlief aber in den einzelnen Regionen Bayems sehr unterschiedlich, was wiederum Bayems strukturelle Inhomogenitiit zeigt.

Die Beamten verdreifachten ihren Anteil von 2,6 % (1946) auf 7,3 % (1970). Dagegen blieb der Anteil der Arbeiterschaft relativ konstant. Nach einem leichten Anstieg von 43,7 % (1946) auf 45 % (1961) fiel er auf 44,1 % abo Die Quote von 26,4 % (1970) der aggregierten Selbstandigen in allen Wirtschaftsbereichen Bayems zeigt im Vergleich mit den entsprechenden Quoten im Durchschnitt der Bundesrepublik (1970: 15,9 %), daa Bayem seine bekannte "mittelstandische Strukturfestigkeit" im Prozea der Umschichtung nicht verloren hat.

Neue" CSU konnte spater die politische Spaltung des katholischen Lagers in Bayem iiberzeugend iiberwinden. Die Kehrseite dieses politischen Erfolges war aber, d~ sie weiterhin nur mit Miihe das Bild christlicher Interkonfessionalitat vermitteln konnte. Auch einem wesentlich abgemilderten katholisch-kulturkampferischen Sozialkonservatismus gelang es schwer, das frankisch-protestantische Lager in Nordbayem und das stadtische Biirgertum fiir sich zu gewinnen. Solange der Einflug allzu prononciert katholisch~konservativer Krafte in der CSU die in der bayerischen Parteienkonstellation nach 1945 emeut durchschlagenden konfessionellen Spannungen eher verscharfte als abbaute, blieb die CSU im protestantischen Nordbayem mit dem Odium behaftet, eine Nachfolgeorganisation der BVP zu sein.

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