CONTEST

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
ONE Introduction 3

Part I. The Demystification of the Party-State
TWO Massacre and Memory: Gdansk and Gdynia, 1970
THREE The Three-Day Worker Republic: The General Strike in Szczecin 7
FOUR Gierek: The Road to Confrontation 83
Part II. The Anatomy of a Democratic Movement
FIVE The Vanguard versus Workers' Self-Government 99
SDC Solidarity at the Grass Roots 115
SEVEN Sacred Politics 126
EIGHT The Ideological Origins of Solidarity 155
NINE Fashionable Myths and Proletarian Realities 169
Notes 183
Bibliography 223
Index 243