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Poland under Communism
A. Kemp-Welch
University of East Anglia
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To Klara, Hannah, Maia and Nadia
Contents
Preface page ix
List of abbreviations xi
1 Prelude 1
2 Stalinism 17
3 Thaw 49
4 Flood 76
5 Polycentrism 93
6 Stagnation 124
7 Counter-culture 146
8 Détente 172
9 Opposition 203
10 Gdańsk 237
11 Non-invasion 269
12 Martial law 302
13 Amnesty 332
14 Consultation 361
15 Abdication 391
Bibliography 428
Index 441
vii
Preface
ix
x Preface
under communism holds wider lessons. The Polish success owed nothing
to the threat of military force. It showed what could be achieved by civic
courage against apparently insuperable geo-strategic obstacles. Refusing
to be victims, they too helped to end the Cold War.
When I first visited (in 1971) Poland was opening to the West for
capital and technology and communism was placating society with pop-
ular measures such as rebuilding Warsaw’s Royal Castle, dynamited by
the Nazis. Though writing a thesis on Stalinism in the 1930s, I became an
increasingly engaged spectator of contemporary Poland. Under the pen-
name ‘Joseph Kay’, I was able to record the origins of political opposition.
During Solidarity’s sixteen months of legality I was fortunate to attend its
meetings at every level, including the Gdańsk Congress in 1981. These
experiences informed my first book, The Birth of Solidarity.
After the fall, the British Academy enabled me to visit the post-com-
munist historians assembling at the Polish Academy’s new Institute of
Political Studies. There was an immediate meeting of minds. The impor-
tant works of its founder members Andrzej Paczkowski, Paweł
Machcewicz and Andrzej Friszke have been seminal for mine. We jointly
convened panels at the 1995 World Congress of Central and East
European Studies (in Warsaw) which became Stalinism in Poland,
1944–1956 (1999). Its Russian contributor, Sergei Kudryashov, has
always been an indispensable guide to Moscow archives. Vital too are
the findings and analyses of Mark Kramer (Harvard).
Poland under Communism was largely written during a Leverhulme
Trust Research Fellowship and Study Leave extension funding from
the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. The author gratefully
acknowledges their generous assistance. He has also learned much from
the other seventy-four contributors to the forthcoming three-volume
Cambridge History of the Cold War being edited by Mel Leffler (Virginia)
and Arne Westad (LSE).
Amongst many colleagues, Zbigniew Pełczyński (Oxford) has been
encouraging throughout the project. The School of History at UEA has
proved a happy home. Thanks are due to Michael Watson, my commis-
sioning editor at CUP, and all his staff, especially Leigh Mueller. Quiet
places to write were provided by Selima Hill in Lyme Regis, and by Joyce
Divers and Willy Bulow in north Norwich. Thanks also to founder
members of the Friday Club: Dave Corker, Ali Harvey, Ken Kennard
and Andy Patmore. My main debts are to Alice and the dedicatees.
Abbreviations
xi
xii List of abbreviations
1
W. Franklin (ed.), The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943 (Washington, 1961),
pp. 867–68.
2
Mary E. Glantz, FDR and the Soviet Union: The President’s Battles over Foreign Policy
(Lawrence, Kans., 2005).
3
S. Kudryashov, ‘Diplomatic Prelude’ in A. Kemp-Welch (ed.), Stalinism in Poland,
1944–1956. (New York, 1999), p. 36.
1
2 Poland under Communism
that the President ‘misled’ Mikołajczyk.4 Roosevelt’s own view was evi-
dently that there was no way to prevent Moscow taking control of Poland,
should it so desire, and he tried to bring the State Department round to
this way of thinking.5 His main attention was elsewhere, primarily on
developing and achieving his conception of a new post-war order.
The Atlantic Charter (August 1941) had mentioned the need for a
revived League of Nations. But for fear of antagonising US
opinion – Congress refused to ratify the League Covenant in 1921 – its
last Article referred to the essential need for disarmament ‘pending the
establishment of a wider and more permanent system of general security’.
The President proposed a new United Nations to keep the peace. The
new body would be truly inclusive. To ensure that the great powers of the
day would join – to avoid a boycott like that of the League – they would be
given a veto, which would enable them to block any operation mounted
against them. In a structural innovation, the UN Charter talked about
‘the Organisation and its Members’, granting significant institutional
authority to the former. In due course, the Secretary-General would
emerge as a genuine international actor. Finally, the issue of sovereignty
was side-stepped. Thus the Charter talked about the ‘sovereign equality’
of all its members (a hybrid jurists found puzzling). After Stalin
demanded that the USSR, being a federal state, receive a seat each for
its sixteen republics, to which the USA replied that it had even more
constituent states, the super-powers signed up. The existence of
Permanent Members of the Security Council meant that some were
more equal than others.
At his first meeting with Molotov, Roosevelt expounded his conception
of the Four Policemen. Thus the USA, UK, USSR and China would have
the most significant military establishments in the post-war world, and
between them would enforce world peace.6 Molotov did not respond,
though he commented in retirement that ‘it was to our advantage to
preserve the alliance with America. That was important.’7 Stalin, how-
ever, saw the point at once, cabling his reaction to Molotov: ‘Roosevelt is
absolutely correct. Without creation of an association of the armed forces
of England, the USA and the USSR able to forestall aggression, it will not
4
Jan Karski, The Great Powers and Poland, 1919–1945, from Versailles to Yalta (London,
1985), p. 517.
5
G. Lundestad, The American Non-Policy towards Eastern Europe (Tromso, 1978), p. 188.
6
Foreign Relations of the United States (hereafter FRUS): 1942, vol. III, pp. 568–9.
7
Sto sorok besed c Molotovym. Iz dnevnika F. Chueva (Moscow, 1991), p. 76.
Prelude 3
8
E. Mark, Revolution by Degrees. Stalin’s National-Front Strategy for Europe, 1941–1947,
Cold War International History Project (hereafter CWIHP) Working paper no. 31
(Washington, 2001), p. 11.
9
K. Kersten, The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943–1948 (Berkeley, Calif.,
1991), p. 120.
10
Mark, ‘Revolution by Degrees’, pp. 6–7.
11
T. V. Volokitina (chief ed.), Sovetskii faktor v vostochnoi Evrope, 1944–1953, vol. I.
1944–1948 Dokumenty (Moscow, 1999), pp. 29–30.
4 Poland under Communism
12
Roosevelt and Churchill. Their Secret Wartime Correspondence (New York, 1975), pp. 428–9
(5 February 1944).
13
S. Butler (ed.), My Dear Mr. Stalin. The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Joseph V. Stalin (New Haven, 2005), pp. 201–2.
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