As events continue to unfold in Poland, Western experts still fail to realize that what they are witnessing is not simply a “revolt of the workers” joined later by intellectuals, farmers, and students. Rather, it is a fullscale social and spiritual revolution, what the Poles prefer to call odnowa, renewal. It had been fomenting for four extraordinary years before it burst through the crust at Gdansk, and it has roots deep in Polish history. What the general public—and possibly some Kremlin leaders—still fail to grasp is that Solidarity is not just a labor union but a mass movement involving the overwhelming majority of the Polish people, including 39 per cent of the Communist party.