The regime of violence in socialist and postsocialist Poland

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 482-498

  Fleming, Michael ^a  

^a Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczno Ekonomiczna w Lodzi   (Poland)

Author keywords

class; Poland; politics; postsocialism; violence

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MARGINALIZATION; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; POST-COMMUNISM; SOCIALISM;

POLAND;

EID: 84857943012     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.620512     Document Type: Article

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