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In Poland, a growing crisis having to do with communist party control over universities, the literary community, and intellectuals in general, marked the mid-1960s. Those persecuted for political activism on campus included Jacek Kuroń , Karol Modzelewski , Adam Michnik and Barbara Toruńczyk, among others.
On 8 March, the 1968 Polish political crisis began with students from the University of Warsaw who marched for student rights were beaten with clubs. The next day over two thousand students marched in protest of the police involvement on campus and were clubbed and arrested again.
The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Marxist–Leninist regime in Poland after the end of World War II.These years, while featuring general industrialization, urbanization and many improvements in the standard of living, were marred by early Stalinist repressions, social unrest, political strife and severe economic difficulties.
A secret meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party was held. Cliques began to emerge within the Polish United Workers' Party leadership, representing different possibilities of getting out of the political and economic crisis that was plaguing the Polish People's Republic. December 7
Gierek may have tried to make his move during the 1968 Polish political crisis. Soon after the student rally on 8 March in Warsaw, on 14 March in Katowice he led a mass gathering of 100,000 party members from the entire province.
1968 Polish political crisis; 1971 Łódź strikes; June 1976 protests; 1981 general strike in Bielsko-Biała; 1981 Polish hunger demonstrations; 1981 strike at the Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń; 1988 Polish strikes; 2023 Polish protests; 2024 Polish farmers' protests
Poland's efforts to resolve the crisis partly comprised improving fortification and policing on the border, but Warsaw was also sending a clear political message that the current situation "cannot ...
1968 Polish political crisis; 1971 Łódź strikes; ... Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1989) C. Children of June of '56; J. Upper Silesia 1980 strikes; L.