Book description:
The 1980s were a time of permanent crisis for the Polish United Workers’ Party. It culminated with Mieczysław F. Rakowski’s famous saying - “Take the banner out” - and the self-dissolution of the party at its last congress in January 1990. The texts collected in the presented volume help to understand what led to its final collapse.
Published as part of the IPN Central Research Project: The communist movement and the apparatus of power.