Rozmyślania w związku z trzydziestą rocznicą wypadków poznańskich

Abstract

The article contains consideration on social and political situation existing in time of workers' protest in Poznań in June 1956 and on contemporary and later scientific and political interpretations of these events. The author is interested in internal and international conditions of social tensions in Poland. It is his view that the elements of crisis lay not only in the assumed model of laying down the foundations of the new political system but also in the errors of politicians who in due time were not able to bring themselves to necessary reformatory actions.