%0 Journal Article
%T Jehovah’s Witnesses in Greater Poland — part II (years 1951–2018)
%A Miłosz, Jan
%J Archival and Historical Review
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/2391-890XPAH.20.006.14640
%N Vol. VII
%P 123-147
%K religious minorities, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Third Polish Republic, Polish People’s Republic, ban, National Committee, Charles Taze Russell, Bible Students, Free Bible Students, Epiphany, Office for Denominational Affairs, Security Office, Security Service, district servant, assembly servant, Watchtower.
%@ 2391-890X
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-archiwalno-historyczny/article/swiadkowie-jehowy-w-wielkopolsce-czesc-ii-lata-1950-2018
%X 
	Jehovah’s Witnesses have been active in Greater Poland for over a hundred years. Each sub-period of the last century was full of events affecting both the whole community and its individual members. The second part of the article presents the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Greater Poland during the years of the Polish People’s Republic (1950–1989): in the period of illegal operation and Stalinist persecution in the years 1950–1956, underground operation in the 1960s and 1970s, and in their pursuit of legalization in the 1980s. The article also discusses Jehovah’s Witnesses in independent Poland, when their operation was again legal, i.e. from 1989 until now. All these periods in the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses are intertwined and affect how they are now perceived in Greater Poland in the Third Polish Republic. Keywords: religious minorities, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Third Polish Republic, Polish People’s Republic, ban, National Committee, Charles Taze Russell, Bible Students, Free Bible Students, Epiphany, Office for Denominational Affairs, Security Office, Security Service, district servant, assembly servant, Watchtower.