Word: poznan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate effect was a wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev...
...large degree, Poland's problems have remained the same. In the wake of the 1956 Poznan "bread and freedom" riots, which brought Gomulka to power, he instituted an enlightened reform program, only to see it founder largely because of Poland's turgid, overcentralized economic system. Disappointment led to public resentment, which in turn provoked government repression. If Gierek is to avoid the same cycle, he must improve Poland's managerial system and inspire workers and farmers to greater performance...
...curfew was imposed on Gdansk-but it was too late. Within hours, similar popular explosions, equally violent, had broken out in the nearby towns of Gdynia and Sopot. Like a sizzling fuse, resentment over the higher prices and other government policies spread to cities and towns across Poland: Wroclaw, Poznan, Katowice, Slupsk, Lodz, Cracow and Warsaw itself...
There were ironies aplenty in the situation. As every Pole knows, it was the "bread and freedom" riots of Poznan that carried Gomulka to power in 1956; he was heralded then as the man who could hold the country together. In his own cautiously individualistic way, Gomulka did just that. His 14 years in office are proof that he has retained the wily political acumen that led Poles to describe him as "The Maestro." No wonder that so many thoughtful Eastern Europeans have said: "To understand Poland, understand Gomulka...
...that it could not imitate the Soviet Union. He opposed collectivization and supported Tito. For this behavior he was forced to acknowledge "selfcriticism" in 1949 and was relieved of his posts. He was arrested in 1951 and remained a virtual prisoner until 1956, when the party, shattered by the Poznan riots, saved itself by choosing Gomulka to rebuild Polish Communism...