The Bolek Affair: Or, Kiszczak’s Cupboard and the Meaning of History

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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.

Metadata
Document Type:	Article
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.25626/0051
Creator and project details
Author:	Piotr Osęka GND
Editor:	Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND
Publishing Institution:	Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Title details
Title (English):	The Bolek Affair: Or, Kiszczak’s Cupboard and the Meaning of History
Parent Title (English):	Cultures of History Forum
Release Date:	2020/02/12
Date of Publication (online):	2019/01/07
Date of first Publication:	2016/05/24
Language:	English
Subject indexing
DDC-Classification:	9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:	Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Tag:	PiS; Poland; Wałęsa; communism; state security
GND Keyword:	Polen; Kommunismus; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; Wałęsa, Lech; Innere Sicherheit; Kiszczak, Czesław
Manifestation description (file/s)
File Size:	293 KB
MIME-Type:	application/pdf
Legal information
Licence / Usage Agreement (German):	Urheberrechtlich geschützt

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