Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2012
Abstract
The study "French Communists and Poland in 1956" deals with the relations between the Central European Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) or Poland and the West European French Communist Party (PCF) in the crisis year of 1956. It shows that the relations were influenced by the images that the parties had about each other.
Whereas the PZPR was a governing party in an Eastern block people's democracy, the PCF was in opposition, strong and influential, though, in a Western country. Analysing their mutual relations in 1956 is not only interesting from the point of view of East-West connections, but chiefly of the different approaches to Khrushchev's policy of destalinisation.