First days of martial law in Nowa Huta
PIOTR KAPUSTA
piotr.kapusta@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland
Abstract:
The theme of my work is related to the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of mar-tial law in Poland on the 13th December 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. It concerns one of the largest sites of resistance in the country – Nowa Huta. I have presented what the arrest of the opposition activist in Nowa Huta looked like on the night of 12/13 December 1981 and I have presented the course of strike and its repression in the largest workplace in Cracow – in the Vladimir Lenin Steelworks in Nowa Huta.
Key words:
Martial law, a strike, Nowa Huta, repression, internment, opposition activists
DOI: 10.15503/jecs20121-127-139
