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Solidarity and Contention deftly reconstructs the networks of protest in Communist Poland to show how waves of dissent during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s left an organizational residue that both instructed and enabled Solidarity and, ultimately, the Polish revolution. Using newly available documentary sources, Maryjane Osa shows how political challengers developed an ideological formula to facilitate coalition building

Solidarity and Contention deftly reconstructs the networks of protest in Communist Poland to show how waves of dissent during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s left an organizational residue that both instructed and enabled Solidarity and, ultimately, the Polish revolution. Using newly available documentary sources, Maryjane Osa shows how political challengers developed an ideological formula to facilitate coalition building.

Analyzes activism in Poland to illuminate the organizational development of social movements in nondemocratic states. Interorganizational networks composed of "civil society" groups are reviewed, three from the late 1960s protest wave & three from the 1976-81 period that included the formation of the Solidarity trade union. Differences in the configuration of social networks, with attention to network structures & protest mobilization, affect movement formation. Protests by the church, students, & workers in Poland are analyzed for their organizational development & barriers to network expansion & social movement formation. Political & protest events in the 1976-81 period displayed characteristics that made it less vulnerable to repression & better able to facilitate social mobilization. 9 Figures. L. Collins Leigh

This article considers the conditions for protest mobilization and the creation of oppositional networks under authoritarianism. Archival data identifying membership in eighteen social action groups provide the basis for social network analysis of the opposition domain. Network development is traced during three phases of anti-Stalinist mobilization. The study finds that the opening of political opportunity in a non-democratic setting stimulates both civic association and contention. It is suggested that future research be conducted to identify the relational contents of ties in order to determine when influence in a network is likely to facilitate or to inhibit collective action.

This article considers the conditions for protest mobilization & the creation of oppositional networks under authoritarianism. Archival data identifying membership in eighteen social action groups provide the basis for social network analysis of the opposition domain. Network development is traced during three phases of anti-Stalinist mobilization. The study finds that the opening of political opportunity in a non-democratic setting stimulates both civic association & contention. It is suggested that future research be conducted to identify the relational contents of ties in order to determine when influence in a network is likely to facilitate or to inhibit collective action. 1 Table, 6 Figures, 1 Appendix, 49 References. Adapted from the source document.

This article analyzes data on labor protests in Poland during the transition period. A bivariate categorical model was used to estimate the effectiveness of different protest strategies. Analysis shows that strike threats and strikes were effective in gaining concessions from the government or employers in over eighty percent of the events in which these strategies were employed. These findings challenge prevailing notions of a weak labor movement in Poland. The implications of the study of protest for evaluating "the two faces of labor" and for democratic consolidation are explored.

Examines influence of the organized labor movement on democratization and political economic reform.