| Memoirs of a (Highly) Political Economist Contributor(s): Winiecki, Jan (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631668791 ISBN-13: 9783631668795 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $73.31 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | Economics - Comparative - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015034748 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.93 lbs) 205 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These memoirs portray an individual coping with the adversities and surrealistic qualities of life and work under communism. The author recollects his adolescence, next, how he tried to avoid head-on conflicts, dissented, and how he finally became a known critic of the system. As such, he belonged to a group of advisers to the underground Solidarity leadership. His memoirs help to understand the collapse of the communist system and the stormy period of systemic change from a personal perspective. The author participated in these changes as an already well known Sovietologist, as well as through his own on- and off involvements in post-communist transition politics, participating in various advisory bodies (including that advising President Walesa). |