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LECH WAŁĘSA W SIECI BEZPIEKI

Jan Skórzyński

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 7 - 25

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.001.13103

From the informant to contester. Files "Bolek" – an attempt to read

The documents of Security Service (SB) announce that Lech Walesa was in the years 1971-1975 the secret collaborator – „Bolek” – in the Gdansk Shipyard. This cooperation was intense year and a half, until May 1972. In the years 1972-1975 from the position of a co-worker of the system Walesa began to provide critical opinions about the situation in the yard and labor problems. He has also publicly criticized the authorities. Instead facilitate the control of the crew, he was seedbed of discontent and a source of instability. In 1976 Walesa was removed from his job in tthe Gdansk Shipyard. SB agreed to this because unruly colleague brought them more harm than good. From the informant to contester – this was the evolution of Walesa’s contacts with political police of Polish People’s Republic (PRL).
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Tomasz Kozłowski

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 26 - 35

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.002.13104

Blackmail or politics? The internment of Lech Walesa

The paper considers political aspects of the internment of Lech Wałęsa during the martial law in Poland. It focuses on the negotiations between the authorities and the leader of Solidarity. Wałęsa was urged (and later blackmailed) to support the operation of rebuilding Solidarity into so-called neo-Solidarity. According to the plan of the Ministry of Interior, key positions in neo-Solidarity should by offered to the collaborators of the Security Service and activists ready for far-reaching compromise. The paper focuses on the course and dynamics of negotiations with Wałęsa by numerous authorities emissaries: Stanisław Ciosek, Paweł Chocholak and colonel Władysław Iwaniec. This article describes the negotiation strategy of both sides and shows why the attitude of Walesa was an important factor in the failure of the political plans of the Communist Party leadership.
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Andrzej Friszke

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 36 - 47

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.003.13105

Banning of Solidarity and the release of Lech Walesa

Banning Solidarity made on 8 October 1982. Was the intention of the authorities to close the era of Solidarity. Chief Military Prosecutor Office would, however, bring Lech Walesa before the court, just like other leaders of the Association, which wanted accused of preparing for the violent overthrow of the communist regime. The decision to release from internment Walesa walked away this option. Walesa was to remain an „ordinary citizen”, isolated from public life. Hopes for enforcing passivity Walesa, and the more his capitulation, however, were in vain. He argued that his attitude during the hearing in the investigation against leaders of Solidarity and KSS „KOR” clandestine meeting with the underground TKK and the conversation with the officers SB in April 1983. The ability to process Walesa crossed finally John Paul II, who broke objections communist authorities, met with the leader of the compound during his pilgrimage to Poland in June 1983.
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STUDIA

Timothy Blauvelt

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 48 - 60

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.004.13106
Status Shift and Ethnic Mobilisation in the March 1956 Events in Georgia
 
The large-scale demonstrations that took place in Georgia in early March 1956 following Khrushchev’s criticism of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress were the first significant expressions of public protest and civil disobedience in the Soviet Union for decades, and they also bore a clearly nationalistic character. Based primarily on materials from the Georgian KGB and Party archives and interviews with former Party officials and participants of the events, this article examines potential interpretations of these events derived from elite incorporation and ethnic mobilisation theories.
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Krzysztof Tarka

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 61 - 71

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.005.13107

The judgment for the translation. The case of Anna Rudzińska

In 1960, Jerzy Giedroyc, editor-in-chief of “Culture”, turned to Anna Rudzińska asking for help in the translation of English-language books in exile sociologist Felix Gross. Rudzińska worked in the library of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, at the same time was head of the office in the Polish Sociological Society. The summer of 1961 the prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the translation, and SB founded bugged the apartment Rudzińska. During the revision of the officers they found the Gross’es book and a few pages of the translation, and Rudzińska was temporarily arrested. In February 1962, the court sentenced her to one year in prison for going to translate scientific books eminent sociologist. For good conduct she was conditionally released in June 1962 year.
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Łukasz Garbal

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 72 - 84

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.006.13108

Intelligent on strike. Jan Jozef Lipski in December 1981

The article is an attempt to determine the source of the facts relating to the strike in the Mechanical Works „Ursus” after the introduction of martial law in communist Poland and break the strike by force by the authorities and the fate of the leaders of the protest, with particular emphasis on advising the leaders of the strike long-term dissident, Jan Jozef Lipski. The author juxtaposes different relationships, and, critically reviewing them, trying to reach witnesses from different levels of decision-making.
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Marcin Gajek

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 85 - 97

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.007.13109

The ideology and political practise of Solidarity and republican tradition

The paper argues that – regardless of neo-Marxist inspirations – many views of Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, or Jacek Kuroń on civil society bear a surprising resemblance to political philosophy of Aristotle or Cicero. This, in turn, makes it possible to argue that Havel’s concept of “anti-political politics” is not anti-political at all but to the contrary – political par excellence, if only one adopts a sourcing understanding of politics characteristic for classical republican tradition. Moreover, those republican traces are especially well-visible in both the structure and the way of operating of Polish Solidarity movement.
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MATERIAŁY Z DZIEJÓW OPOZYCJI WOBEC KOMUNIZMU

Jan Skórzyński

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 98 - 98

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INTERPRETACJE

Elżbieta Matynia

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 137 - 147

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.008.13110

The Lost Treasure of Solidarity

The article discusses the political changes in Poland. The author offers information on Solidarity, a social movement between 1971 and 1981. The Solidarity miracle that disappeared with the terror of martial law imposed in December 1981 reemerged only briefly in a more limited version to hover over the spectacular Roundtable negotiations in April 1989. The surge in both the volume and the diversity of civil initiatives in the mid-1970s coincide with the signing of the Helsinki Accords and with the country's dramatically worsening economic situation.
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ESEJ

Tomasz Łubieński

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 148 - 151

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.009.13111
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ARTYKUŁY RECENZYJNE

Jan Kofman

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 152 - 155

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.010.13112
Inka Słodkowska, Komitety Obywatelskie 1989–1992. Rdzeń polskiej transformacji
Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, Warszawa 2014, ss. 468
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Marcin Kula

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 156 - 163

https://doi.org/10.4467/25434942WS.16.011.13113
Fenomen Solidarności i zmiana ustroju. Polacy 1980–2011, red. Władysław Adamski
Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2014, ss. 544
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EX LIBRIS

Kamil Dworaczek

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 164 - 166

Leszek Biernacki, Gdy wieje wiatr historii… Studenci z robotnikami, Gdańsk 1976–1980
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa 2014, ss. 470
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Marek Pernal

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 167 - 170

Aleksander Kaczorowski, Havel. Zemsta bezsilnych
Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2014, ss. 462
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Tomasz Sikorski

Wolność i Solidarność, nr 9, 2016, s. 171 - 172

MÓJ SIERPIEŃ ’80. Pomorze Zachodnie na drodze do wolności , oprac. Przemysław Benken, Magdalena Dźwigał, Artur Kubaj, Marta Marcinkiewicz, Michał Siedziako, red. Magdalena Dźwigał, Artur Kubaj i Michał Siedziako
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Szczecin 2015, ss. 296
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