Moscow and the Polish Crisis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney I. Ploss
Keyword(s):  
Polish Crisis

The Reasons for the Polish Crisis of 1980-81

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronistaw Minc
Keyword(s):  
Polish Crisis

scholarly journals EDMUND BURKE, POLAND, AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF EUROPE

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-910
Author(s):  
ANNA PLASSART
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Polish Question ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Polish Crisis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
European Civilization

AbstractThis article re-examines Burke's doctrine of intervention by analysing his decades-long interest in the ‘Polish question’. Contrary to the main thrust of existing scholarship, it argues that the French Revolution did not fundamentally transform Burke's assessment of the European state system. Rather, Burke's most famous and controversial 1790s positions on the topic were rehearsed in the previous decades through his practical engagement in long-running eighteenth-century discussions about the Polish state, which acted as a lightning rod for disagreements surrounding the nature and future of European politics. Burke was interested in the Polish state because it raised fundamental questions about the nature of European civilization, the rules of progress, and the conditions for long-lasting peace. The Polish crisis of 1772 led him to reflect on the relationship between internal and external politics, and crystallized his analysis of the Balance of Power as not only the guarantor of continental peace, but also as the very source of the unique ‘spirit’ of European civil society. It was this same framework of analysis that he applied to France in the 1790s, to argue that the expansionist ambitions inherent to democratic republicanism warranted intervention because they threatened the unique nature of European civilization.

The Polish Crisis and Myrdal's Model of Circular Causation

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Tarkowski
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Structural Nature ◽  
Intractable Problems ◽  
Transient Feature ◽  
Economic Underdevelopment ◽  
Polish Crisis

After analysing the structural nature of the Polish crisis, Myrdal's model of economic underdevelopment as due to a self-reinforcing rather than self-correcting social process is applied to Poland. Poland's cumulative backwardness is a permanent rather than a transient feature of her economic, administrative and political life and affects the mass public as well as the leaders and middle-rank officials. Many of those who seek reforms do not support the political system, while many who support the political system do not favour reform. The predicament of how to break the vicious circle of self-perpetuating backwardness poses intractable problems for the reformers.

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