The uses of history by the Polish democratic opposition in the late 1970s

Bibliographic Data

ID11046463
AuthorsSiobhan Doucette (0000-0001-8169-9164, Film Independent, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume46
Issue3
Pages341-357
Publication date2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2017.1352574
OpenAlexW2758049602
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

During the late 1970s, members of the Polish democratic opposition revised and reinterpreted key elements in the Polish past in support of their contemporary ideas about Polish society and opposition. The birth of the independent press in Poland in 1976 provided these debates with a medium for wide dissemination and discussion. Analysis of democratic opposition debates in the independent press on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, historic Polish–Russian relations, and the struggle for and achievement of independence in the early twentieth century shed light on the ways in which the democratic opposition perceived Polish society and the legacy of tolerance, diversity, nationalism, and socialism within it. It also reveals the major divisions within the democratic opposition and its primary tactical proposals prior to the birth of the Solidarity trade union in 1980. Forty years later, these debates continue to reverberate

Commonwealth · Democracy · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies

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