The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights(Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition)

Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. This study undertakes the first full historical comparison of the Polish movement with the ideals and institutions of democracy achieved in the last three centuries.