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Poland's Contentious Elites Enter the Age of Revolution: ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY SOCIAL MOVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP SHOULD BECOME EVEN BROADER

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Scholars of social movements commonly call for the field to be broadened in various ways because movements are often intertwined with other forms of conflict and because the causes or consequences of movements may operate differently in different contexts. Important change processes that were unfolding in Poland at the time of the French Revolution provide an instructive case. Although the contemporaneous French Revolution, with its enormous quantity and variety of collective mobilizations has been a touchstone for social movement scholars, the work of Poland’s reform parliament and the adoption of Poland’s 1791 constitution have gotten much less attention. Poland’s reform politics not only provides both instructive parallels to and differences from French revolutionary developments, but were also deeply intertwined with them and embedded with those French events in a larger, European field of contention. Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of the Polish reform movement is that it was largely driven by elites; something noted in Karl Marx’s bemused praise. Although social movements played very much less of a role in Poland than in France, we try to show here that familiar tools of social movement analysis permit an account of those Polish events as well.

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Sociologie
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hal-01580961 , version 1 (23-09-2017)

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Piotr Konieczny, John Markoff. Poland's Contentious Elites Enter the Age of Revolution: ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY SOCIAL MOVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP SHOULD BECOME EVEN BROADER. Sociological Forum, 2015, 30 (2), pp.286-304. ⟨10.1111/socf.12163⟩. ⟨hal-01580961⟩
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