The Politicization of Social Divisions in Post-War Poland

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
	References
2 The First Structural Experiment: Communist-Era Homogenisation
	Ideological and Political Reasons for Interfering with the Structure, and the Patterns of That Interference
	National Unity as an Instrument for Integration and Exclusion
	A Revolutionary Attack on Existing Social Divisions
	The Promise of Non-antagonistic Relationships Between Structural Segments
	References
3 Consequences of the Experiment:  The Division Between Society and the nomenklatura
	Mechanisms of the Formation and Removal of Social Distances
	Experience of Discrimination in Workplaces
	Inequalities in Advanced Socialist Society
	The Main Division of the Communist Era: “Us”–“Them”
	References
4 The Second Experiment: The Differentiation of the Social Structure
	Ideological and Economic Reasons for Interfering with the Structure, and the Patterns of That Interference
	Problems with Structure, Waiting for the Formation of the Middle Class
	Continuation of Communist-Era Social Division
	Transformation and Further Politicization of the “Us”—“Them” Division
	References
5 Consequences of the Second Experiment: The “Winners”–“Losers” Division
	A New Register of Wrongs and Transformation of the Social Structure
	Division of the Time of Economic Differentiation: “Winners”–“Losers”
	The “Solidary”–“Liberal” Practice as a Confirmation of the Continuity of Divisions
	The Practices of Repartition—Consequences of a Homogeneous Society
	References
6 The Formation of Social Divisions and the Theory of Practices of Repartition
	Ideological and Structural Context and Social Divisions
	Mechanism of Dichotomous Practices of Repartition
	Conditions for Applying and Redefining Repartition
	Practices of Repartition—Homogeneity Destruction Instruments
	References
7 Conclusion
Index