Volume 28, Number 12 · July 16, 1981
Poland Rewrites History
By Robert Darnton
When the strikers in Gdansk met to assess their victory over the government last August, they discussed not only practical questions about how to organize their new union but also the need for a 'new history.' 'They wanted to know how Poland got to be the way it is. They wanted hard facts, the whole truth,' explained Bronislaw Geremek, a medievalist, who has been a key adviser to Solidarity from the time it came into being in the shipyard of Gdansk.
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