TY  - JOUR
A1  - Osęka, Piotr
A2  - von Puttkamer, Joachim
A2  - Kopeček, Michal
A2  - Borodziej, Włodzimierz
T1  - The Bolek Affair: Or, Kiszczak’s Cupboard and the Meaning of History
T2  - Cultures of History Forum
N2  - The article puts a spotlight on recently discovered files about Lech Wałęsa’s collaboration with the state security forces in 1970 and the political debates that followed from this discovery. Showing how the right-wing PiS party seized this opportunity to bolster its narrative of the “treacherous” roundtable talks and of the post-1989 transition as engineered by the communist authorities, the article makes the point that once again, history is being instrumentalized by the party in power.
KW  - Poland
KW  - Wałęsa
KW  - state security
KW  - communism
KW  - PiS
KW  - Polen
KW  - Kommunismus
KW  - Prawo i Sprawiedliwość
KW  - Wałęsa, Lech
KW  - Innere Sicherheit
KW  - Kiszczak, Czesław
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://digital.herder-institut.de/publications/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83
ER  -