1968 in Poland: The Rebellion on the Other Side of the Looking Glass.

POLISH history -- 20th century; NINETEEN sixty-eight, A.D.; PUBLIC demonstrations; POLISH students; GOMULKA, Wladyslaw, 1905-1982; AUTHORITARIANISM; WALESA, Lech, 1943-; POLSKA Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY

The article discusses the author's views about Poland in 1968, and it mentions an uprising involving Polish students, interrogations in Warsaw, Poland's prisons, and the treatment of young protesters in the U.S. and Western Europe. Authoritarian rule under the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party Władysław Gomułka is examined, along with Poland's industrial-agricultural economy, activist Lech Wałęsa, and an insurgency in Poland.