Czesław Brokos, ‘Back Then, You Felt You Were Alive’: Behind the Scenes of the Pro-Democratic Opposition in 1980s Poland

Abstract

Czesław Brokos’s narrative, which has been supplemented by academic commentary, presents an intimate look at the underground printer’s life and activity in 1980s Poland. This witness to history also recalls the names of many of his collaborators, which had hitherto been absent from academic publications.

Keywords

• “lower silesian bulletin”
• independent self-governing trade union “solidarity”
• anti-communist opposition
• solidarity regional strike committee