Democracy’s Long March Through the Institutions of a People’s Republic
Journal: The Polish Review
Year: 2012

Abstract Poland’s struggle for freedom following the Second World War culminated in the Contract Sejm and the Eastern Bloc’s first non-communist government. This paper recognizes that this victory was the result of the strength of the public in fighting totalitarian communism as well as the Polska Zjednoczona Partía Robotnicza’s (PZPR) weakness. However, I argue that political pressure from the Allies post-Yalta gave space to groupings from the pre-war Polska Stronnictwo Ludowe (PSL), Stronnictw