Introduction

1. Stalinism in Poland
• Conference in Jalta and its results
• The cold war
2. Beginning of the communist governing (1945-1956)
• Underground activity opposed to

the communists
• Referendum (June 1945)
• Election to "Sejm Ustawodawczy"

(January 1947)
• Communist dictatorship
• The socialist economy
3. Wladyslaw Gomulka's governing (1956-1970)
• June events in Poznan (1956)
• Polish October (1956)
• Millennium
• March events (1968)
• December insurrection (1970)
4. Poland in Edward Gierek's hands (1971-1980)
• Slogans of universal prosperity
• Strikes and demonstrations (up to 1976)
• Formation of the Democratic Opposition

and its successes
• Pope Karol Wojtyla (1978)
• Crisis
• Successive strikes and formation of

NSZZ Solidarity (1980)
5. The end of PRL (1980-1989)
• The martial law (1981-1988)
• Underground activity of the Solidarity
• Normalization
• The church's case (1982-1988)
• The round table negotiations
• Election (June 1989)
6. Transformations and development in politics

and economy since the fall of communism
in Poland
7. Countries of Central Europe
• Hungary
• Germany
• Czechoslovakia
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (decay)
8. Council for Mutual Economic Aid
9. Warsaw Treaty Organization

• Public opinion about the issue of political transformations
• Authors
• Index