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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Siobhan Doucette
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Abstract

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.

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Polanddemocratic oppositioncivil resistanceindependent pressnationalism
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 341 - 357
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Copyright © 2017 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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