Ost, David. The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe. Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press, 2005.

Table of contents Abstract Reviews Excerpt

1. Democracy and the Organization of Anger
2. Solidarity against Itself
3. Market Populism and the Turn to the Right
4. How Liberals Lost Labor
5. Communist and Postcommunist Experiences of Class
6. Labor at Work: Unions in the Workplace
7. Conclusion: Class, Civil Society, and the Future of Postcommunist Democracy

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