God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 427 socialist leaders were charged with treason, and removed. In the countryside, the last remnants of the ...

(^428) POLSKA LUDOWA compensatory gesture. This appeared in the Trade Treaty of 28 January 1948, which provided for Polish—Sovie ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 429 So, if Gomulka did command a solid following, dominant in the Party by 1948, the only possible source ...

43o POLSKA LUDOWA point had always been presented to the world as 'a non-party man'. His depar- ture removed the last obstacle t ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 431 All this emphasizes that Poland's path was not the same as that of other East European countries. Pola ...

POLSKA LUDOWA opposed to all forms of co-operation with the Communist regime. Then in June 1947, when August Zaleski succeeded ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 433 leave. Their leaders had very little influence in British life, and were regarded as anathema in Warsa ...

434 POLSKA LUDOWA Persian Court to the world at large, 'there were no true Moslems in Persia'. According to Milosz, there were v ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 435 most shocking case, however, centred on a former hero of the anti-Nazi under- ground movement, Maj. Em ...

436 POLSKA LUDOWA (PRL). On the model of similar communist constitutions, all citizens were guar- anteed the right to work, to l ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 437 instrument of policy. The security forces were not given the unlimited licence that they had enjoyed i ...

438 POLSKA LUDOWA About walls without mildew, About the hatred of scraps of paper, About people's precious, holy, time, About a ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 439 the course of the summer, Gomulka resurfaced in Party circles, and made his mark in a series of analyt ...

440 POLSKA LUDOWA PZPR was to take control of the People's Republic without direct supervision from Moscow. The Polish Road to S ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 441 Criminal Law (1969) were instituted. But there was little attempt to restrain the Party's unbridled li ...

POLSKA LUDOWA factions, notably the 'Partisans' of General Moczar, now Minister of the Interior, were looking for trouble. The ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 443 thousand. It was a shameful episode which could be presented abroad as a resurgence of Polish 'anti-Se ...

444 POLSKA LUDOWA The crisis of December 1970 was provoked by the sheer clumsiness of a regime which was losing all contact with ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 445 martyrdom of St. Adalbert to the sufferings of both Poles and Germans in the concentration camps of th ...

446 POLSKA LUDOWA in differing forms and in different degrees did not exist in every part of the world. But an important distinc ...