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Dilemmae of National Policies after 18 Years of Transformation

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Wilczynski W.

Ekonomista

2007

issue 6

757-770

The breakthrough of 1989 has opened the way to democracy and to market economy. However the controversies concerning the shape of the future economic system last till today. The principles of economic liberalism crashed with ideas. The hopes for quick improvement of living conditions after 40 years of poverty did not help to choose the most promising economic system. After a short but very efficient therapy (1990) the tendency to adopt a 'third way' solution and to build up a sort of 'welfare state' prevailed over liberal economic projects. In consequence the public debt increased during the last 15 years by over 300 billion PLN. The structure of fiscal expenditures prefers social allowances and does not help the economy to grow faster. The high share of fiscal expenditure in GDP reduces the rate of investment and does not favor the growth of employment. The Polish economy needs a more consistent constitutional policy in favor of liberal solutions stimulating economic activity. The privileges of highly inefficient state owned enterprises should be repealed. Their privatization should be consistently continued. To ensure a long time success of the Polish economy the centralization of decisions should be removed and democratic solutions in governing the country introduced.

WHITE REGIMENT BY MIKHAIL BULGAKOV: ANTI-UKRAINIAN RHETORICAL STRATEGY

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Wilczynski W.

Slavia Orientalis

2005

vol. 54

issue 4

551-560

The present article was inspired by Eve M. Thompson's 'Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism' (London 2000) and can be registered in the context of postcolonial studies. In the article, the analysis is focused on 'The White Regiment' (1925), a novel by a Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The present author proves that, in the course of narration, Bulgakov highlights a typically Russian point of view when describing the events that took place in Kiev at the turn of 1918. In those days Kiev was the capital of the Ukrainian State, the Ukrainian People's Republic, being in the very process of its formation. Bulgakov disparages the idea of Ukraine's independence and discredits not only the language and history of Ukraine but also the mentality of its people and qualities of its national leaders. He does it on purpose to enhance the views of the Russian heroes of the novel, an educated family of the Turbins and their friends, in line with colonial interests of the Russian Empire - common good of all Russian people - irrespective of the form of the system, whether a monarchy or a communist republic.

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Dilemmae of National Policies after 18 Years of Transformation

WHITE REGIMENT BY MIKHAIL BULGAKOV: ANTI-UKRAINIAN RHETORICAL STRATEGY