ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

Revolution, democracy and Solidarity

chapter |31 pages

The charismatic presentation of natural rights

A Weberian theory of democracy

chapter |7 pages

Epilogue

The Polish Revolution in comparative context