The dramatic events of 1989 in Poland had their roots in the country's economic crisis of a decade earlier. In "The Polish Economic Crisis," Batara Simatupang analyzes the economic crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s and places it in a wider political-economic context. He identifies the issues involved in this recession as a combination of governmental economic incompetence, a lumbering bureaucracy, and the tenuous legitimacy of the ruling communist party--all set within the international economic environment in which Poland existed. The book also analyzes the aftermath of this...
The dramatic events of 1989 in Poland had their roots in the country's economic crisis of a decade earlier. In "The Polish Economic Crisis," Batara Si...
