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oapen-20.500.12657-495712021-07-21T04:32:15Z Through the Back Door Kochanowski, Jerzy 1944–1989 Black Black market Door Hard currencies Illegal economy Kochanowski Market Meat Moonshine Poland bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first, the black market stabilized the system by making it more flexible and creating a margin of freedom, albeit in the short term. In the long run, the informal economic activities of the people ran counter to and undermined the official ideology of the state. The author concludes that in post-war Poland, owing to a singular coincidence of historical, political, economic and social factors, the second economy had its own unique character and an endemic presence that loomed large in the Soviet Bloc. 2021-06-16T10:24:33Z 2021-06-16T10:24:33Z 2017 book ONIX_20210616_9783653048018_14 9783653048018 9783631704363 9783631704370 9783631655856 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49571 eng Studies in Contemporary History application/pdf n/a 9783653048018.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/978-3-653-04801-8 10.3726/978-3-653-04801-8 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783653048018 9783631704363 9783631704370 9783631655856 5 436 Bern open access
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This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first, the black market stabilized the system by making it more flexible and creating a margin of freedom, albeit in the short term. In the long run, the informal economic activities of the people ran counter to and undermined the official ideology of the state. The author concludes that in post-war Poland, owing to a singular coincidence of historical, political, economic and social factors, the second economy had its own unique character and an endemic presence that loomed large in the Soviet Bloc.
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