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Aleksander Smolar
Professor of Political Science, CNRS, Paris; President, Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw. Former advisor to Poland's first non-Communist prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
Eurozine Articles
Years of '68
The Western revolutionaries of '68 were often hostile towards supporters of the Warsaw March revolt and indifferent towards the subsequent "anti-Zionist" purges. Yet the events were disastrous for Polish Jews at the time and are still relevant forty years later. [more]
26.05.2008
The return of the radicals
The radical government stems from that section of the Solidarity movement opposed to the route transformation took after 1989. Their cultural conservatism has landed on fertile ground in a contemporary Poland suffering from social alienation and distrust in democratic institutions [more]
28.09.2006