Norweska droga do dobrobytu. Rola Socjaldemokratów
Journal Title: Zeszyty Naukowe Zbliżenia Cywilizacyjne - Year 2014, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
“It was during the time I wandered about and starved in Christiania: Christiania, this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the traces of his sojourn there” – with this description of the Norwegian capital city of the late nineteenth century, Knut Hamsun, a prominent Norwegian writer and a Nobel laureate, began his opus entitled Hunger (Sult). This novel is a profound analysis of the human psyche set in circumstances of great hunger and struggle for survival in Hamsun’s contemporary Oslo. Today, the writer is regarded as the forerunner of the modernist trends in the psychological novel genre. However, Hunger is not an exception, as most of Hamsun’s work is widely related to the severe living conditions of the inhabitants of this Scandinavian country. Even before the outbreak of World War II, famine, poverty, high emigration rates (especially to the U.S.) were considered common phenomena. Norway was one of the poorest and most backward countries in Europe. The sequence of events, phenomena and processes that have taken place in this Nordic country, together with external factors conducive to Norway’s development, contributed to the fact, that nowadays the word poverty, which was for many centuries synonymous with this Scandinavian country, became its antonym. Today, Norway is considered by many scholars as one of the best countries to live in (this is corroborated by the top ranks which Norway achieved e.g. in the Human Development Index – first place in 1995, 2000-2006, 2009-2012), which arouses the perfectly understandable admiration. Therefore, it seems reasonable to ask a question about the mechanisms and processes that within only a single generation time span allowed the Norwegians to achieve such rapid progress, and climb to the top of the rankings of countries with the highest degree of development in the subsequent years.
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Wojciech Lieder
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