Pawel Sowinski

Project deals with so called samizdat publications that were issued by opposition groups in Eastern Europe under communist times. Books and newspapers of this kind helped to create pro-democratic movements in Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. In this way samizdat made a contribution to the fall of the East European communism in 1989. The main objective of my research is to compare a polish samizdat with illegal publications in other communist countries.