Reforms in Poland INTRODUCTION In March 1985, Mikhail Gor

While economic, political, and social change in the Soviet Union was beginning to emerge under Gorbachev's leadership, however, such change had either been attempted or was already underway in some of the other socialist states. Perhaps the socialist country with the longest uninterrupted experience with change of this sort is Poland. Labor unrest precipitated political turmoil in that country in the summer of 1956, and the process has yet to run its course.

This current research examines the economic, political, and social reforms in Poland. The nature of the reforms, the type and degree of assistance being provided by western countries, and multinational investment in the wake of the reforms, and the probable future outcomes of the economic reforms (considering their relationship to past attempts at reform, the extent to which they have been implemented, and their effects on the Polish population) are considered.

The Polish parliament "rushed through the reform measures in December" 1989, and they went into effect on 1 January 1990 (Norton, 1990, p. 132).

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d, and failed to prepare the Soviet economy for the transitions required in the latetwentieth century, on the other hand (Minard, & Brimelow, 1986; Walker, 1986). The initial efforts to reform Stalinist economic policies occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, under Malenkov and Khruschev (Mazour, 1967). The reform policies were somewhat timid, and the results were somewhat unimpressive (Gorbachev, 1987). As a result, both of these earlier reformers lost their political power. These reforms were terminated by Leonid Brezhnev in the mid1960s (Walker, 1986). Elsewhere in the socialist world, both Yugoslavia and Hungary implemented economic reforms in the 1960s. Those in Hungary were curtailed to the point of death, prior to being revived in the 1980s. In 1979, the Peoples Republic of China implemented far reaching economic changes. Even in the wake of the violent supression of student protestors in the spring of 1989, the Chinese economic reforms remain largely intact. Czechslovakia implemented significant economic reforms in in the late1960s, which were crushed by the Soviet Union. 7Americans tend most often to remember Alexander Dubcek in romanticized terms of the Prague Spring of 1968, and of its later crushi
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