Liga NarodowoDemokratyczna w latach 1957–1960
Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość, Vol. 24 No 2 (2014), pages: 283-319
Publication date: 2014-12-30
Résumé
The article presents the history of the Democratic-National League, an opposition
organization with a national profile, which operated in the years 1957–1961, in the context
of events associated with the Polish national movement after World War II, as well as
in the time-frame during which the movement was active – the first years of Gomułka’s
government. The author describes the structure of the organization and its programme,
trying to find the sources of the ideas which it contained. He also tries to present the links
between the Democratic-National League and national activists from outside its
structures as well as the Catholic Church. Describing the historical context, the author goes back
to the end of World War II, while the main part of the work covers the 1957–1961 period
– from the moment of making the decision to set up the organization until its co-founders
and key members were sentenced. The main sources for the article were documents from
the IPN Archive and interviews with the League members.