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Wydarzenia marcowe 1968 r. w świetle akt proweniencji PZPR-owskiej z zasobu Archiwum Państwowego w Lublinie
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 12 (2019), pages: 109–130
Publication date: 2023-04-05
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Abstract
The State Archives in Lublin contain archival sets of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR), they contain important documents about the history of the Lublin March ’68. They appear primarily in the files of the provincial and municipal committees of the PZPR in Lublin. The most information on the course of incidents involving students of Lublin universities and subsequent repression against them can be found in the minutes of the meetings of the Secretariat of the Provincial Committee and in the Information of the First Secretary of the KW (Provincial Committee) on the political situation in the Lublin Voivodeship presented at the meeting of the First Secretaries of the KW in the Central Committee of the PZPR in Warsaw on March 26, 1968. In turn, the minutes of the Plenum and Executive Municipal Committee in Lublin include news information about, among others, the “contribution” of workers from Lublin enterprises and ORMO (Volunteer Reserve of the Citizens’ Militia) members to the dispersion of the students’ assembly. In order to show the official position of the PZPR leadership regarding the reasons for the outbreak of this social protest, and to reflect the atmosphere prevailing in the ranks of party members, the papers delivered by the First Secretary of the KW and the resolutions adopted by the basic party organizations and committees of the PZPR of the lowest level are valuable. The documents found contain information on many aspects of the Lublin March in 1968. However, one cannot fail to mention that there are gaps in the abovementioned sets, both informational (no information about events) and documentary (no documents from this period). Undoubtedly, they affect the current state of knowledge about those events.
