Abstract
The year 1968 was a year of great significance in Polish postwar history and a turning point for the country’s breakthrough to democracy in 1989. It saw student protests, an anti-intellectual and anti-Semitic campaign, and power struggles within the ranks of the governing Communist Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza). It brought the end of revisionism in the Polish Left and bridged the gap between the opposing Left and the Catholic Church—the basis for the success of the independent trade union Solidarność at the beginning of the 1980s.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Bibliography
Eisler, Jerzy. Marzec 1968. Warsaw: Krytyka, 1991.
Eisler, Jerzy. Polski Rok 1968. Warsaw: Instytut Pamie¸ci Narodowej, Institute of National Remembrance, 2006.
Falk, Barbara. The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East–Central Europe. Budapest: CEU Press, 2003.
Friszke, Andrzej. Opozycja polityczna w PRL 1945–1980. London: Aneks, 1994.
Friszke, Andrzej. Polska. Losy pan´stwa i narodu 1939–1989. Warsaw: Iskry, 2003.
Kula, Marcin, et al., eds. Marzec 1968. Trzydzies´cie lat póz. niej. Material´y konferencji. Vol. I. Referaty, Vol. II. Aneks z´rôdl´owy. Warsaw: PWN, 1998.
Kuron´, Jacek. Wiara i wina. Do i od komunizmu. Warsaw: NOWA, 1990.
Michnik, Adam. Kos´cióKos´cióKol´ciól´, lewica, dialog. Paris: Instytut Literacki, 1977.
Michnik, Adam. Polnischer Frieden. Aufsätze zur Konzeption des Widerstands. Berlin: Rotbuch, 1985.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2008 Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Garsztecki, S. (2008). Poland. In: Klimke, M., Scharloth, J. (eds) 1968 in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611900_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611900_15
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-0-230-60620-3
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-61190-0
eBook Packages: Palgrave History CollectionHistory (R0)