The Polish August - What Has Happened in Poland? - The Self-Limiting Revolution

Poland has erupted four times in the last 25 years but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of outside observers. How were such changes possible? What forces lay behind them? In what way did the workers' strike relate to the demands for political democracy? Ascherson was an eyewitness to these events...