Lokalna aktywność społeczno-polityczna krakowskiego środowiska naukowego w latach 1983–1988

Abstract

The aim of this article is an attempt at analysing the socio-political attitudes of the academic community in Krakow in the period from the lifting of martial law in July 1983 to December 1988. Across Poland, those were the years of increased socio-political activity of the citizens, made possible by the lifting of martial law, although it should be noted that the period was not stable and uniform. Those five years were a period of constant change, first conditioned by constraints, then by gradual concessions made by the authorities and by consolidation of the public mood of dissent. In the light of available resources, among which the prominent role is played by the documents from the collection of Cracow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance and the National Archives (Division IV – the latest documents, created after 1945 and the documents of economic units from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), there is no doubt that in the five-year period under analysis the opposition moods and the associated socio-political activities in Krakow’s scientific and student circles were traditionally strong, as previously in the first years after the war and in the subsequent decades of the communist era.