Paweł Wieczorkiewicz : Introduction 7 // Paweł Wieczorkiewicz : Between two foes (1939-1944) !) // Jan Żaryn : Communism Polish style (1944-1956) 67 // Łukasz Kamiński : From rebellion to rebellion (1956-1980) 97 // Antoni Dudek : The carnival (1980-1981) 129 // Henryk Glębocki : At war with the people (1981-1989) 165 // Jarosław Szarek : Foreign attitudes to martial law 211 // Antoni Dudek : In conclusion... 229