| dc.description.abstract | The object of the analysis is the use of the word revolution in the propaganda of the political opposition during
1977-1989. The underground circulation, which was the forum of expression for the authors connected with the
illegal organisations of that period, published many works containing reflections about social and political
change. Thus, both in large publications and in the periodicals, the concept of revolution appeared in
theoretical, historic and strictly propaganda and projection contexts. In the first case, interesting
publications were reprints of books by well-known foreign and emigrant authors whose publishing was banned.
Historic interest of publishers and authors of the secondary circulation centred around the core and political
implications of the bolshevic revolution and around the problems connected with the birth of the Polish post-war
system of power. From a certain time perspective, it was considered to what extent „Solidarity” was a
revolutionary movement, and to what extent it was a reform one, and whether the Polish mass social protests of
1980 created a chance to change the system radically. The program sense of the publications concerning the
current methods of political struggle, however, distinguished the streams of the opposition groups before and
after the martial law. Though it is also noticeable, that the debate concerning social values and the criticism
of the communist ideology, which could be identified in the publications of the underground circulation, restored
the values of the great social revolutions. The social and political practice was criticised, and it was
demonstrated that freedom was in fact captivity, the slogan of equality was unrealistic and under communist
system it changed into unfair egalitarianism, and results in emergence of a new class of owners (party
bureaucracy). The brotherhood associated with internationalism contradicted the national interests, and
therefore, it is more attractive to emphasize reconstruction of the fundamental bonds and solidarity in the
social relations, and promotion of sovereignty in international relations. | en_EN |
