La revuelta polaca de 1956

Abstract

After the death of Stalin in March 1953 started a slow process of passing by the Communist dictatorships, controlled by Moscow, from its most severe period (called Stalinist) to a more liberalized one. These changes occurred also in Poland, where a terror diminished and the sovietization of the country finished. The Communist Party was in crisis. The social tension broke out when in June 1956 the workers declared a general strike and went out to the streets of Poznan´. In a short time an economic protest converted in an anti-Communist one under a slogan “bread and freedom”. The manifestation ended in armed struggle. The Communist leaders decided to suppress the uprising in blood, using the army with that aim. After the June 1956 the protests of October of that year BROCAR, 33 (2009) 171-194 171 BROCAR, 33 (2009) 171-194 came with its liberalizing and anti-Soviet slogans which ended with a certain liberalization of the regime.