Poland’s 1956 Poznań uprising saw tens of thousands of workers rise up against the Stalinist bureaucracy. Although brutally crushed, this revolt shook the Moscow and Warsaw regimes, and precipitated revolutionary struggle across the Eastern Bloc.
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Poznań 1956: The first workers’ uprising in Stalinist Poland
Poland’s 1956 Poznań uprising saw tens of thousands of workers rise up against the Stalinist bureaucracy. Although brutally crushed, this revolt shook the Moscow and Warsaw regimes, and precipitated revolutionary struggle across the Eastern Bloc.