Polonia comunistă, II Epoca lui Edward Gierek 1971-1980
Communist Poland, II. The Edward Gierek Epoch, 1971-1980

Summary/Abstract: The major social unrest that shattered Poland in late 1970 determined the replacement of Wladislaw Gomulka, the first-secretary of the CC of the PUWP, with Edward Gierek. However, the change did not bring along a resolution of the economic problems Poland was facing, these problems growing worse in the ‘70s. Against such a background, clashes occurred between the communist authorities and representatives of the society, which created the prerequisites for the coalescing of opposition groups. The solidarity between workers and intellectuals, materialized in a first stage in the emergence of KOR (the Workers’ Defense Committee), would then lead to the setting up of Solidarity, the free trade union.

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