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Agora SA / Andrea Nagy, Stanley Garstka & Douglas Rae.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: [London] : SAGE, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473974111 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658 23
Online resources: When Adam Michnik and Helena Luczywo were toiling in Poland's underground publishing world, little did they know that within a few years they would be heading up a multimedia conglomerate. During the 1970s and 80s writers in Poland were persecuted, and Michnik and Luczywo were an active part of the illegal samizdat publishing culture. But in spring 1989 everything changed. In April the Solidarity trade union was officially recognized, and in May Michnik and Luczywo began publishing Gazeta Wyborcza, the first legally independent newspaper in the Soviet communist world. Not long afterward the communist superstructure collapsed, and a new Poland was born. This case study discusses this topic.
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Originally Published in: Nagy, A., Garstka, S., & Rae, D. (2007). Agora SA: From Samizdat to Multimedia Giant. 07-025. New Haven, CT: Yale School of Management, Yale University.

When Adam Michnik and Helena Luczywo were toiling in Poland's underground publishing world, little did they know that within a few years they would be heading up a multimedia conglomerate. During the 1970s and 80s writers in Poland were persecuted, and Michnik and Luczywo were an active part of the illegal samizdat publishing culture. But in spring 1989 everything changed. In April the Solidarity trade union was officially recognized, and in May Michnik and Luczywo began publishing Gazeta Wyborcza, the first legally independent newspaper in the Soviet communist world. Not long afterward the communist superstructure collapsed, and a new Poland was born. This case study discusses this topic.

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