![]() Protests by Poznań workers in June had highlighted the people's dissatisfaction with their situation. Three years had passed since Joseph Stalin's death and his successor at the Soviet Union's helm, First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, denounced him in February. ![]() The international situation significantly weakened the hardline Stalinist faction in Poland, especially after the Polish communist leader Bolesław Bierut died in March. įor the Polish People's Republic, 1956 was a year of transition. Some social scientists term it the Polish October Revolution, which was less dramatic than the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 but may have had an even deeper impact on the Eastern Bloc and on the Soviet Union's relationship to its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. ![]() ![]() Polish October ( Polish: Polski październik), also known as October 1956, Polish thaw, or Gomułka's thaw, marked a change in the politics of Poland in the second half of 1956. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of the great imaginative creations in English literature * Daily Telegraph * agreeably sardonic - Quentin Letts * Daily Mail * Social, political and physical labyrinth - Frances Osborne * Evening Standard * ![]() Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9780099548430 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 245 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 'Wonderfully entertaining' Michael Holroyd, Guardian Books of the Year 'Magnificent story-teller' Independent on Sunday 'This book is richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters' The Times Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles - all glitter in front and squalor behind - leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future.īut will that future ever be his? 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