Abstract
The DiP group had painted a devastating picture of Poland’ s problems and future; its concrete proposals for reform were however both moderate and vague. This was not unexpected, given the group’s semi-official status. The ‘three main lessons’ drawn in the report were the need to ‘preserve a national identity, so that the national culture can thrive unfettered’, the need to ‘develop the skills and talents of democratic co-operation, of self-government’, and the need to ‘develop the economic efficiency of society’.1
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The text of the Szczecin and Gdaňsk Agreements is given in Appendix 2 of N. Ascherson, The Polish August, (London, 1981), pp. 280–295.
K. Pomian, Pologne: Défi a l’impossible, (Paris, 1982), p. 201.
Laws of 25 September 1981 on Workers’ Self-Management, and on State Enterprises, printed in P. Raina, Poland 1981, (London, 1985), pp. 396–19.
C. Barker, Festival of the Oppressed, (London, 1986), p. 134; and Raina, op. cit., p. 431, quoting a Solidarity statement of 7 December 1981.
J. Staniszkis, Poland’s Self-Limiting Revolution, (Princeton, 1984), p. 327.
J. Holzer, Solidaritat, (Munich, 1985), pp. 375, 381.
N. Davies, Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland, (Oxford, 1984), p. 19.
A. Sulek, ‘The PUWP: from mobilisation to non-representation’, Soviet Studies, 42, 3, 1990, pp. 499–511.
See A. Smolar, ‘The Polish Opposition’, in F. Fehér and A. Arato, (eds), Crisis and Reform in Eastern Europe, (London, 1991), p. 185, and passim.
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Fowkes, B. (1993). The Premature Revolution: Poland 1980–81. In: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22812-6_9
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