Preface; 1. Prelude; 2. Stalinism; 3. Thaw; 4. Flood; 5. Polycentrism; 6. Stagnation; 7. Counter-culture; 8. Détente; 9. Opposition; 10. Gdansk; 11. Non-invasion; 12. Martial law; 13. Amnesty; 14. Consultation; 15. Abdication.
A history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism.
Tony Kemp-Welch was educated at the London School of Economics and held research posts at the Universities of Oxford, Moscow, Harvard and Cambridge. He is the author of The Birth of Solidarity and Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia, and co-author and editor of The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin, Intellectuals in Politics and Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956.
'This is a compelling, well-written narrative of contestation between regime and society in the PRL (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, the Polish People's Republic), and is only the second monograph in English devoted entirely to postwar Poland and the first written in English. … Poland under Communism is thus a valuable book, both for those who already know much of the story as for those encountering Polish history afresh.' International Review of Social History
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