Inny tytuł:

Polska 1944/45-1989 : studia i materiały 10 (2011)

Współtwórca:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Wydawca:

Instytut Historii PAN

Miejsce wydania:

Warszawa

Opis:

p. 331-359 ; Eng. summary

Typ obiektu:

Journal/Article

Abstrakt:

A Workers’ Defence Committee (Polish: Komitet Obrony Robotników) founded in 1976 was the first open oppositional organisation in communist Poland. Apart from legal and financial assistance to the workers persecuted by the state authorities, the KOR organised a publication of periodicals outside the reach of the state censorship, such as the ‘Information Bulletin’ (‘Biuletyn Informacyjny’). Initially, the periodicals copies were typewritten, but at the turn of 1976 and 1977 they began to be multicopied on duplicating machines, which allowed to greatly increase their circulation. The KOR Communiqués described the scale of reprisals: a number of detained, fired and convicted workers, they reported beatings, trials and sentences. They presented detailed scopes and types of the assistance offered and informed of the police actions towards the opponents: arrests, interrogations, beatings and other persecutions. According to the main principle, only proven information was published. The information about the KOR activities was passed on to Western journals and broadcasting stations from where it was transmitted back to Poland, through the broadcasts of the BBC Radio and the Radio Free Europe.To the mid-March of 1977 the Committee had financially assisted 557 families. Cases of legal and medical help are impossible to be counted. The KOR’s representatives were sent to workers’ trials, they reached the families of imprisoned workers. The information had been gathered about the fate of almost thousand persons throughout the whole country. The operation was conducted by volunteers only, and the funds were raised through individual donations handed from person to person. The authorities of communist Poland launched a campaign to plague the opposition members with anonymous letters containing insults and threats, telephone calls and intrusions of alleged workers, but all those failed to interrupt the KOR activity.

Czasopismo/Seria/cykl:

Polska 1944/45-1989 : studia i materiały

Tom:

10

Strona pocz.:

331

Strona końc.:

359

Szczegółowy typ zasobu:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Identyfikator zasobu:

oai:rcin.org.pl:59715 ; 2450-8357

Źródło:

IH PAN, sygn. B.155/10 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. B.156/10 ; kliknij tutaj, żeby przejść

Język:

pol

Język streszczenia:

eng

Prawa:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Zasady wykorzystania:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitalizacja:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Lokalizacja oryginału:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Dostęp:

Open