TY  - GEN
AU  - Kochanowski,Jerzy
TI  - Through the Back Door : The Black Market in Poland 1944–1989
SN  - 978-3-653-04801-8
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Bern
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - 1944–1989
KW  - Black
KW  - Black market
KW  - Door
KW  - Hard currencies
KW  - Illegal economy
KW  - Kochanowski
KW  - Market
KW  - Meat
KW  - Moonshine
KW  - Poland
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49571/1/9783653048018.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49571/1/9783653048018.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70825
ER  -