„Okrągły Stół” – od totalitaryzmu do demokracji?
„Okrągły Stół” – od totalitaryzmu do demokracji?

Summary/Abstract: THIS ARTICLE EXPLAINS the significance of Polish Round Table Agreement in 1989. In this article I have tried to emphasize that the project of political system, which was elaborated by Round Table, had the typical authoritarian character. The Round Table’s agreement was the final component in the process of destruction of totalitarian social and political system. Without negotiations between PZPR’s elites and “Solidarity” elites, without agreements from April 1989, the transformation process wouldn’t have been possible in the direct democratic sense (which started at the beginning of 4th June, 1989) and restoring the elementary level of sovereignty. Moreover, “Round Table” is presented as an attempt to stabilize polish political system, thorough creation such new political institutions, which make possible coexistence of two basic political and social blocks.

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