Years of Hope and Disappointment, 1956–67

Three years after the death of Stalin, the Polish People’s Republic experienced the gravest crisis of its sociopolitical system to that point. By the end of 1956, the country had experienced a war at the top of the party leadership, a bloody revolt among the workers of Poznań, the specter of Soviet...

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Published inBetween the Brown and the Red p. 111
Main Author Kunicki, Mikołaj Stanisław
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Ohio University Press 04.07.2012
Edition1
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Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Buildings
Catholicism
Christianity
Communism
Government
Government officials
Government services
Group identity
Institutional buildings
Law enforcement
National identity
Nationalism
Patriotism
Police
Political ideologies
Political organizations
Political parties
Political philosophy
Political science
Psychology
Religion
Religious buildings
Social psychology
Socialism
Spiritual belief systems
Stalinism
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Summary:Three years after the death of Stalin, the Polish People’s Republic experienced the gravest crisis of its sociopolitical system to that point. By the end of 1956, the country had experienced a war at the top of the party leadership, a bloody revolt among the workers of Poznań, the specter of Soviet military intervention, and Gomułka’s return to power. Historians and journalists often refer to these events under the collective term Polski Październik (Polish October). A reference to the Bolshevik October Revolution in Russia, it accentuated the socialist character of the movement, which sought to democratize the system and to
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