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The Opposition Movement in Poland*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Richard F. Staar*
Affiliation:
Hoover Institution

Abstract

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Type
Symposium (A Decade of Dissent in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Meaning of the 1970s)
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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References

Notes

1. L. Stachow, “The Struggle for Democracy in Poland;” paper submitted at the Leeds Castle Conference on 11-13 May 1979 (London). The new text appeared in Dziennik Ustaw, no. 5 (10 February 1976).Google Scholar

2. Stachow, ibid., p. 6.Google Scholar

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19. Note, however, the opposite view which describes the opposition as follows: … The virtual disregard for party dissident movements or internal liberalizers by those on “the outside” reflects the fact that the dissidents view their task as a direct appeal to society itself. They must talk with and guide society, from below — not to try to use the Party dissenters and tactics from within to manipulate or bring about a change in the character of the system. Jan B. de Weydenthal, Poland: Communism Adrift. (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979), p. 56.Google Scholar

20. Much of the foregoing and following is based on an unpublished manuscript by Jadwiga Staniszkis, “Dialectics of a Socialist Society: The Case of Poland,” being reviewed by Princeton University Press for possible publication as a book.Google Scholar

21. Signifies pre-1939 Stronnictwo Narodowe (National Party), anathema to leftist intellectuals.Google Scholar

22. See the interview with Jacek Kuron in Der Spiegel (4 August 1980), pp. 98-100; Hamburg.Google Scholar

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27. Sources: Statistical Yearbook (1971, 1974, 1978) and the 1980 budget approved by parliament; given in Staniszkis, op. cit. Google Scholar

28. Boris Lewytzkyj and Juliusz Stroynowski (eds.), Who's Who in the Socialist Countries (New York: K. G. Saur Publ. Co., 1978), pp. 35-36.Google Scholar