Martial Law in Poland 1981-1983

The publication issued in the series of Monographs is an extensive volume on the events of 1981-1983. It constitutes an attempt to look at the Martial Law from a new perspective. For the first time, a team comprising several historians conducted a broad research and managed to get hold of unpublished elaborations as well as testimonies of the witnesses. As a result, a publication comprises a comparative description of the Martial Law in particular regions of Poland. Every chapter concerns a different region and is comprised of six constitutive parts describing: the mechanism of the introduction of the Martial Law, the functioning of the state apparatus, opposition and social resistance, penal repressions and other forms of persecution, the role of the Catholic church and other religious associations, as well as public atmosphere from December 1981 to July 1983. The contents:

• Introduction by Antoni Dudek;
• Lower Silesia and Opole Silesia by Łukasz Kamiński and Paweł Piotrowski;
• Upper Silesia, Podbeskidzie and Częstochowa region by Jarosław Neja;
• Lublin Region by Małgorzata Choma-Jusińska;
• Małopolska and Świętokrzyskie regions by Marek Lasota, Małgorzata Ptasińska and Zbigniew Solak;
• Mazowsze, Warmia and Mazury by Tadeusz Ruzikowski;
• Sub-Carpathian region by Dariusz Iwaczenko and Jan Pisuliński;
• Podlasie and Suwałki regions by Tomasz Danilecki and Marcin Zwolski;
• Gdańsk Pomerania and Kujawy by Sławomir Cenckiewicz;
• Western Pomerania by Robert Spałek;
• Wielkopolska and Lubuskie regions by Przemysław Zwiernik;
• Sieradz and Łódź regions by Leszek Próchniak.