Wilson Center Experts
Alex Pravda
Short-Term Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Poland
Affiliation:
Lecturer, University of Reading
Wilson Center Project(s):
A Comparative Study on Workers, Trade Unions and Politics in the USSR and Eastern Europe
Term:
Jan 31, 1981
Feb 28, 1981
Also has expertise: Hungary, Poland
Project Summary
Examines the position and role of workers in the USSR and Eastern Europe and the interaction between workers and regime in Soviet-type systems. Focuses on attitudinal, institutional, economic and political conditions and factors that shape workers’ orientation and conduct, and the impact such attitudes and actions have on the political development of the states.