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From the beginning of the emergence of organised forms of opposition in the second half of the 1970’s the young people actively engaged in their activities. In this period, the first independent youth organisations represented by Student Solidarity Committees (SKS) and the Movement of the Young Poland (RMP) were formed very quickly. Along with those structures the first press titles authorised by these environments appeared. After the strikes of August 1980 and the creation of the NSZZ "Solidarity" the youth activated publishing of the independent public press. It bloomed, however, just after the introduction of the martial law in December. The present article presents, in a concise manner, the development of the phenomenon of the youth’s independent publishers in the years 1977 -1990.
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The article outlines the achievements of an independent publishing movement in the, ruled by communist’s, Polish People’s Republic concerning the pre-war Second Polish Republic. It was advisable that the characters and themes from the history of pre-war Poland were popular among underground publishers and that they were overlooked. At the same time, the article presents a dispute between supporters of the idealized vision of the Second Polish Republic and its critics.
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W artykule przeanalizowana została obecność wątków związanych z Marcem ’68 w publikacjach drugiego obiegu wydawniczego. Wskazałem w nim na najważniejsze książki, broszury i numery czasopism, które ukazały się w PRL poza cenzurą i dotyczyły tego „polskiego miesiąca”. Wyróżniłem trzy momenty intensyfikacji debat na ten temat na łamach niezależnych publikacji oraz przeanalizowałem kilka wybranych wątków dotyczących Marca, które były przedmiotem sporów i zróżnicowanych ocen. March ’68 in texts of underground circulation of the Polish People’s RepublicThe article presents an analysis of topics related to March ’69 in Samizdat texts. I have indicated the most important books, pamphlets, and volumes of periodicals that appeared in the Polish People’s Republic outside censorship control and were related to the subject of the Polish March 1968. I have included, among others, books by Jakub Karpiński, Anna Mieszczanek, Anna Siwek, Paul Lendvai, and two special issues of the periodical Krytyka (Criticism). I have distinguished three moments when the debates on the subject in clandestine publications intensified. The first one took place on the tenth anniversary of March, when oppositionists had an opportunity to debate on the subject for the first time. The second one was in 1981, when the “Solidarity” organised a special celebration of the thirteenth anniversary of March. The third one – in 1988 – was a response to the attempted change of narratives about the March undertook by the state authorities. I have analysed several selected topics of March which were the subject of disputes and different opinions: the question of possible provocation that sparked protests, the problem of reaction of Polish people to the antiSemitic propaganda and the policy of the authorities in general, the question of Leftist orientation of the protest participants and the problem of recapitulation of March ’68.
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This article discusses a study of the present vicissitudes of men and women who were active in the underground publishing movement in the nineteen-eighties. One of the elements of the underground “Solidarity” ideology was civic responsibility and social activity. The author wanted to know whether the one-time conspirators have carried these ideas into free Poland.Hefound that very few former underground activists now work in public institutions. They are disappointed with the outcomes of the transformation which, rather than giving them a sense of agency, are convincing them that former members of the democratic opposition have not been instrumental to the successful development of a new, democratic state. The one-time activists are also finding it difficult to come to terms with the social costs of the reforms which they feel they co-authored. Most of them have not ceased to be socially active, however, although they no longer speak the language of civic involvement. They feel that the values they lived by in the years of struggle with the communist regime cannot be applied in any way to the political reality of a free country.
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Zagadnienie drugiego obiegu wydawniczego w PRL w ostatnim czasie cieszyło się sporym zainteresowaniem badaczy, powstało jednak niewiele publikacji opisujących działania komunistycznego aparatu represji w stosunku do niezależnego ruchu wydawniczego bądź ten wątek uwzględniających. Przez wiele lat dominowało przeświadczenie, że Służbie Bezpieczeństwa nie udało się przeniknąć do jego struktur i że niewiele wiedziała o ich działalności. Najnowsze badania z pewnością zmieniły sposób postrzegania tej formy aktywności opozycji antykomunistycznej. Odnajdywane sukcesywnie źródła pozwoliły wyjaśnić niektóre wątpliwości i uzupełnić luki w dotychczasowej wiedzy. Świadczą m.in. o tym, że funkcjonariusze bezpieki wiedzieli znacznie więcej, niż do tej pory sądzono. Niniejszy tekst ma charakter syntetyczny. Stanowi podsumowanie dotychczasowych badań nad tym aspektem funkcjonowania komunistycznego aparatu represji w latach 1980–1990, jakim były jego działania podejmowane wobec niezależnego obiegu wydawniczego, oraz próbę wskazania luk i problemów badawczych. Jego celem jest również zwrócenie uwagi czytelnika anglojęzycznego na złożoność tego tematu, który w publikacjach anglojęzycznych jest przestawiany w dużym uproszczeniu, bez odwoływania się do źródeł, i nie zawsze właściwie interpretowany.
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The issue of second circulation publishing in the Polish People’s Republic has recently attracted considerable interest among researchers, although there have been few publications describing the activities of the communist repression apparatus in relation to the independent publishing movement or taking this theme into account. For many years, the prevailing perception was that the Security Service had failed to penetrate its structures and that it knew little about their activities. Recent research has certainly changed the perception of this form of anti-communist opposition activity. Sources have been successively found the have made it possible to clarify some doubts and fill in the gaps in previous knowledge. Among other things, they testify to the fact that Security Service officials knew much more than has so far been believed. The present text is synthetic in nature. It summarises previous research on this aspect of the functioning of the communist repressive apparatus between 1980 and 1990, namely its actions against the independent publishing circulation, and attempts to identify gaps and research problems. It also aims to draw the attention of English-speaking readers to the complexity of this issue, which is presented in a highly simplified manner in English-language publications, without reference to sources, and not always interpreted correctly.
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