Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

Download or read book Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe written by Jason Sharman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.