Privatizing the Police-State

The Case of Poland

By: Andrzej Zybertowicz, M. Los

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Hardcover | 8 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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This is the first book that documents and analyses the paramount role of secret services in the decomposition of the communist system and the conversion of its elites into new capitalists. The surge of civil society in 1980s Poland prompted a parallel expansion of the police-state apparatus. The book traces the subsequent reconstruction and privatization of social, political and material resources of the police-state and shows how these covert operations shaped other, more visible aspects of the East/Central European transformation. A Note from the Authors: Since the publication of this book, the events in Poland and elsewhere have demonstrated the extraordinary influence and longevity of the power networks spawned by the communist police state apparatus and its eventual privatization. There is new evidence uncovered almost daily, whose interpretation would not be feasible without the conceptual and historical framework elaborated first in this book.

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'This study is a model of what scholarship on secrecy-enshrouded topics should be.' - from the Foreword by Gary T. Marx

'...a fascinating and troubling book...[the authors] raise important questions about the nature of privatized Poland.' - Choice

'It is a well-done piece of research that integrates a wealth of information and makes visible some major trends in the transformation process.' - Nils Christie in Slavic Review

'Privatizing the Police-State examines the privatization of the state control apparatus and the impact this has had on post-socialist property relations and on the possibilities for a full break with the authoritarian system. [The authors] use sources gained through years of reading and careful field research.' - Louise Shelley in Demokratizatsiya

'This is a very important book for those who are interested in communism and in the structures of social domination in post-communism. It is important as an attempt to combine contemporary history, political science and institutional/political sociology. It is an important challenge to the prevailing understanding of communist rule, transition and current social and political structures in Poland.' - Andras Sajo in Law and Politics Book Review

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List of Tables	p. x
List of Case Studies	p. xi
Foreword	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
List of Abbreviations	p. xviii
Opening Considerations	p. 2
Introduction	p. 3
Conceptual and Methodological Issues	p. 10
Metaphors of systemic change in East/Central Europe	p. 10
Covert action: the neglected dimension of governing	p. 14
Privatizing the police-state	p. 19
Methodological approach and sources of information	p. 21
Structure of the book	p. 22
The 1980s: The Post-Totalitarian Party/Police-State?	p. 25
Anatomy of the Police-State	p. 27
The missing dimension	p. 27
Operational surveillance and control	p. 31
The Ministry of the Interior (MSW)	p. 32
The Ministry of Defence (MON)	p. 41
Inter-Ministry relations	p. 42
The secret services and the command economy	p. 43
The Party and the police	p. 45
The police-state: macro and micro power relations	p. 47
State Crime and Cover-Up Operations	p. 60
Martial law of December 1981	p. 60
Murders by the police	p. 64
The cover-up of the Security Service's criminal enrichment schemes	p. 71
The endowment of the nomenklatura	p. 72
The rule of law and the police-state	p. 75
The Role of the Secret Services in the Solidarity Revolution	p. 77
Points of departure	p. 77
Covert methods of influencing social movements: the relevance of Gary T. Marx's model	p. 79
1980-5: Attempts at eradication or subjugation of the opposition	p. 82
Harnessing the opposition: post-1985 Poland as a testing ground for the Soviet Bloc; the role of the secret services in effecting and steering the Round Table talks	p. 89
The secret services and their legacy in later stages of the transformation	p. 101
Recapitulation	p. 102
After Communism: The Posthumous Life of the Police-State	p. 105
The Capital Conversion Process	p. 107
Transfer of power?	p. 107
Power conversion	p. 111
Multiple capital conversion	p. 113
Transforming the Police-State	p. 124
The context	p. 124
The Ministry of the Interior, the police and the secret services	p. 125
The procuracy	p. 133
The judiciary	p. 133
Prisons	p. 136
The Party	p. 137
Iustration/decommunization	p. 145
The Lustration debate	p. 150
Privatizing the Police-State	p. 154
Introduction	p. 154
The privatization of secret files	p. 155
The private security industry	p. 159
Operational aspects of large-scale economic scams	p. 164
The privatization of the police-state and post-communist secret services	p. 179
Final statement	p. 184
The Failure to Prosecute Communist Crimes	p. 186
Prosecution	p. 186
The Statute of Limitations	p. 190
The courts' access to secret files	p. 192
Parliamentary privilege	p. 193
The past is history	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 199
The Globalization of the Post-Communist Transformation	p. 201
The post-industrial techno-cultural revolution	p. 201
The post-national and postmodern 'state of mind'	p. 202
The globalization of the governance and economy	p. 205
The globalization of organized crime	p. 208
The globalization and marketization of spying	p. 211
The virtualization of capital	p. 213
Epilogue	p. 216
Preamble	p. 216
Recapitulation of findings	p. 217
The privatized police-state: concepts and context	p. 226
Notes	p. 232
References	p. 245
Index	p. 264
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