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June 1976: workers’ victory at the cost of repression

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A single day in June 1976 showed how fragile the public’s confidence in Gierek’s team was after almost six years in power. by Paweł Sasanka   The fourteen-year rule of Władysław Gomułka ended in the socio-political crises of March 1968 and December 1970. After the December tragedy, in which the army and police opened fire…

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The events of June 1976 in Radom

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On 25 June 1976, in response to a price increase announced by the government, strikes and demonstrations were organized in a number of workplaces across Poland. The most notable disturbances involving workers occurred in Radom, Ursus and Płock. Social protest was brutally crushed by the milicja, the Polish People’s Republic police, and by the Security…

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Hugo Kołłątaj: the dominant ideologue of the Polish Enlightenment

A prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist
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General Maczek: Tenaciously, yet chivalrously

an interview with Jacques Wiacek
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Stefan Banach: The Genius of the Scottish Cafe

(30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945)
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick