Twentieth Century Polish History Seminar

Wild, Wild East: Transformation of People and Mentality in Poland, 1986-1993.

Today everything is obvious: the dictatorial system collapsed, so the things are exactly as they should have been from the very beginning. But Poles in 1986 were not aware that they were living in the final stages of communism. The story of a great change is full of myths and simplifications but after more than 30 years it is finally worth showing that the final years of the Polish People’s Republic were not so grey at all, as much as the early 1990s were not so colourful. The processes which were labelled as ‘transformation’ are more than a mere political change negotiated at the Round Table in the early weeks of 1989. It is time to challenge popular opinions with actual data and sociological research from to draw collective portrayals of the groups that were absent in the big picture of ‘the transformation’. Of pivotal importance is what was happening on Polish streets and in Polish homes. Wild,

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