Dissent in Poland. The Eastern Archives.

Format:

Book

Database & Article Index

Series:

Archives unbound

Language:

Polish

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--Poland--History--20th century.

Civil rights.

Dissenters--Poland--History--20th century.

Dissenters.

Social movements--Poland--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Poland--Politics and government--1945-.

Poland.

Poland--History--1945-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.

Summary:

The Eastern Archive will be of special value to historians of modern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia; it contains personal materials from the 1930s to the 1950s from a wide range of memoirists and diarists. Organized by name, with date of origin provided, these materials are annotated to convey the major themes covered in the collections. The files provide poignant and often eloquent testimony to the everyday lives of people caught between two dictatorships and the possibilities of resistance and opposition. This archive documents the post-World War II activity of the independence underground, the fates of Stalin's political prisoners, major turning points in Polish history (such as the student and worker protests in Poznan in June 1956) Wladislaw Gomulka's rise to power in October 1956, nationwide student demonstrations of March 1968, the food riots the spread across Poland in December 1970, the strike that initiated the Solidarity movement in Gdansk in August 1980, the martial law period that followed, the takeover of the Lenin shipyards in May 1988, and finally the collapse of Communism in the summer of 1989.

Notes:

Date range of documents: 1939-1989.

Reproduction of the originals from KARTA Center Foundation.

OCLC:

1401982155