Democratic Opposition in Communist Poland

Poland lately is visible in world affairs. Every morning the American President listens to his Polish-born adviser on national security; the Prime Minister of a much smaller country, who first arrived in Palestine as an NCO in the Polish army, gets into the news headlines every other day; a Polish Jew was awarded the last Nobel Prize in literature; and a Polish cardinal was elected to the papacy. Quite a striking coincidence in the history of a country that, according to Alfred Jarry, is R...