BETWEEN TERROR AND MANIPULATION: THE POLISH INTELLIGENTSIA IN THE FACE OF STALINISM.

The article presents an investigation into the variety of social perspectives adopted by the Polish intelligentsia during the Stalinist regime between 1945 and 1956. A wide spectrum of responses by the educated class to socialism is discussed. Dominant attitudes profiled include intellectual opposition through underground social resistance, "unenthusiastic passiveness" mixed with opportunism and pragmatism, and acceptance of the new socio-economic regime. The concurrent developments and interactions of the different political camps are also analyzed. A time line is also given identifying the different peaks of each ideology's prominence throughout the era.