Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Fellow Publications

My, ludzie z Marca, Piotr Oseka

Piotr Osęka

My, ludzie z Marca

Autoportret Pokolenia ’68

Wydawnictwo Czarne
ISBN 978-83-7536-875-8
2015
368 pages, hardback

Many of these young activists would go on to found the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR) and serve as leaders of the Solidarity movement. Historian Piotr Osęka's We, the People of March is the first collective portrait of them, Poland's Generation of 1968. A gripping narrative based on dozens of never-before-published biographical interviews, the book presents the lives of its protagonists from childhood to the aftermath of 1989, tracing the fate not only of legendary opposition members, but also less well-known activists from Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, and Gdańsk. By situating Poland's March demonstrations within an international context, Osęka's book also provides a necessary contribution to the history of the global protest movement of 1968.