University Intelligentsia in the Making of Maps: Post-university Networks and Political Change in Slovenia and Poland

Abstract

The present paper is a result of research done in Slovenia and Poland while the author was a fellow of the Open Society Institute, Budapest between March 2002 and March 2003. The paper looks into the role of a section of university educated intelligentsia in the making of independent Slovenia out of communist Yugoslavia and in the transition of Poland from a one-party communist rule to a multi-party democracy.

Keywords

• Intelligentsia
• Political transition
• Free expression
• Student movements