%0 Book
%A Jan Winiecki
%D 2016
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653062427
%T Memoirs of a (Highly) Political Economist
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-06242-7
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049847
%X 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).
%K Solidarnosc, post-communist transition, Lech Walesa, communism
%G English