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Title: Czeslaw Kiszczak papers
Date (inclusive): 1934-2017
Collection Number: 97046
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Polish
Physical Description:
31 manuscript boxes, 8 oversize boxes
(22.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches, writings, interview transcripts, correspondence, notes, printed matter, photographs, and videotapes, relating to
political conditions in Poland and to the transition from communist to post-communist government.
Creator:
Kiszczak, Czesław
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1997, with an increment in 2018.
[Identification of item], Czeslaw Kiszczak writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
General Czeslaw Kiszczak was the last communist Prime Minister of Poland.
He played an important role in the 1981 implementation of martial law in Poland.
He was also known for taking part in suppressing the Solidarity movement in Poland. Kiszczak was Poland's last communist
leader before the country's transition to democracy. He died in Warsaw on 5 November 2015.
Scope and Content of Collection
The bulk of the materials in this collection is from the 1980s and later and includes: photographs and video recordings pertaining
to the Solidarity opposition and in particular meetings in Zawrat and Magdalenak, selected correspondence, and domestic and
foreign newspapers and clippings with articles about Kiszczak. Materials also document Kiszczak's efforts to form a government
after the semi-free elections of 1989. Collection includes a photocopy of the "Bolek" files and the original of the letter
of the "corporal" to the "general" written by Walesa to Jaruzelski from internment in Arlamow in November 1982.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poland -- Politics and government -- 1980-1989
Video tapes
Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989-