Dziady (poem)
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Dziady is a poetic drama by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. It is considered one of the greatest works of both Polish and European Romanticism. To George Sand and Georg Brandes, Dziady was a supreme
A postcard depicting a scene from Dziady from a production by Stanisław Wyspiański at the Teatr Miejski
A commemorative plaque on the Basilian Monastery in Vilnius where young Mickiewicz was imprisoned between 1823 and 1824
1968 Polish political crisis
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A series of major student, intellectual and other protests against the ruling Polish United Workers' Party of the Polish People's Republic took place in Poland in March 1968. The crisis led to the sup
Dziady (poem)
…of the dead which laid the foundations of the poem and is celebrated in what is now Belarus. A ban on the performance of the play was an aspect of the 1968 Polish political crisis. The drama's four parts are described below in the order of their composition…
Władysław Gomułka with Leonid Brezhnev in Berlin on 17 April 1967
The Dziady theatrical event and its cancellation triggered student protests and violent response by the authorities.
General Mieczysław Moczar initiated and led the widespread antisemitic campaign of 1968.
Part of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the March events at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw