This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist …, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late … ‘Solidarność’ movement to accession into the European Union. Could Poland really be considered an ‘underdeveloped’ nation …

"When Poland and Ukraine introduced their political, social, and economic system reforms at the beginning of the 1990s … per capita had remained at the same levels since 1991, while in Poland, it had increased significantly, to more than $27 … Poland. It examines the course of events and evaluates the effectiveness of the system transformations, both in the context …