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- Title
Dissidents and Police: The Polish March 1968 and a Tale of Two Generations.
- Authors
Osęka, Piotr
- Abstract
This article is part of the special cluster titled Generation '68 in Poland (with a Czechoslovak Comparative Perspective). March 1968 in Poland witnessed two different revolutions. The first one occurred at the universities. The students—the generation of twenty-year-olds—revolted against an oppressive, authoritarian state and demanded freedom of speech. But there was also a second, parallel revolution. It exploded with the anti-Jewish purge carried out by low- and mid-level party officials in their forties. These apparatchiks, born around 1930, denounced the student revolt as a "Zionist plot" and pushed for a nationalist version of the communist system. This article explores why those two generations clashed in 1968 and what was the outcome of that struggle, both in political and social terms.
- Subjects
POLISH politics &; government; ANTISEMITISM; WORLD War II; HISTORY of communism; RACE relations
- Publication
East European Politics & Societies, 2019, Vol 33, Issue 4, p861
- ISSN
0888-3254
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0888325419865328