Rebellious satellite
Subtitle: Poland, 1956
By: Pawel Machcewicz ; translated by Maya Latynski.
Contributors: Latynski, Maya.
Series: Cold War International History Project series
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780804762052
Subjects: Cold War; Protest movements -- Poland -- History -- 20th century; Communism -- Poland -- History -- 20th century; Elections -- Poland -- History -- 20th century; Poland -- History -- Uprising, 1956; Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980; Poland -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Poland -- Relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Relations -- Poland; Poznań (Poland) -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 relates the social history of the protests and mass movements that ultimately changed Polish politics and Polish-Soviet relations in 1956, yet avoided an armed Soviet response. Pawel Machcewicz focuses on people's expression of grievances, and even riots, rather than on "top-level" activities such as internal Communist Part struggles, as he carefully depicts the protests that took place in Poznan in June 1956 and across Poland the following October and November." "Based largely on newly available Party and security apparatus documents, which were originally prepared to inform Poland's Party leadership about what was happening on the ground, the book also includes an illuminating selection of photographs from Poznari in June 1956 taken secretly by the police." --Book Jacket.
Notes: A modified and expanded version of a study published in Poland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Cold War "from the bottom"; title: The Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; title: Bierut's death; title: The thaw; title: The Poznan uprising; title: After Poznan; title: October; title: The January 1957 elections; title: Conclusion: 1956 and its legacy.