SEMIK ZBIGNIEW POWER ONCE GAINED WILL NEVER BE GIVEN BACK? Communism(s) in Central and Eastern Europe [exhibition catalog].

Krakow 2016, Museum of the People's Republic of Poland, p. 202, softcover, minor soiling, cover corners bent.

"Power once conquered we will never give up!" - these words were uttered in 1945. Wladyslaw Gomulka, leader of the Polish Workers' Party. In this way, he expressed his belief in the perpetuity of the communist rule just coming, installed at the initiative and with the help of the Soviet Union. The middle-eastern part of war-torn Europe was becoming the scene of political changes introducing new realities to this area of the world. (...) The four countries under discussion - Poland, the eastern part of Germany, Romania and Yugoslavia - were to become the object of a communist experiment for almost half a century. But did this experiment proceed in the same way in each of these countries? Was there a single model of communism? What was the attitude of the four presented countries to the "motherland of the world proletariat" , the patron saint of communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe? And finally - how did they say goodbye to communism in four different ways, and what consequences did this farewell bring?