Turn - "Secession" - self-dependence : creating a new political scene of Tychy and Lędziny : a case study

"Real socialism left in Upper Silesia not only ecological devastation, backward economy and obsolete social structure, but also limited the possibilities of building new elites, which would replace the all-powerful party, state and economic bureaucracy. After the election of the 4th June 1989, when nomenclature left the regional scene (or rather — after it began to leave the scene) it appeared that there were no fully shaped counter-elites and Upper Silesia was a political desert. The reasons for such a situation were not only the same as in other parts of Poland (Jałowiecki, 1991) but it was also an entanglement of specific conditions resulting from the location of the voivodship in the whole social, political and economic system of the country, created by internal regional dynamics." (fragm.)