Catholicism in Poland

In 1977, Adam Michnik, editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, the influential Polish newspaper, published The Church and the Left. In it, he called for the conservative Catholic Church and the Polish dissident Left to ally against the communists. Today, the book is a testimony to how unlikely alliances can topple authoritarian governments. What allowed for such a powerful coalition to emerge? And how do we make sense of this past when Polish Catholicism poses a threat to democracy today? This interview with Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, and José Casanova, Georgetown University, will discuss the relations between the Catholic Church and Polish civil society in communist Poland and its legacies. How did religion impact the fall of communism? And how does it influence the formation of the contemporary Central and Eastern European states? Patreon: www.patreon.com/euraknot Knotty News: eurasianknot.substack.com/ The Knot’s Nest: eurasian-knot.sellfy.store/ Website: euraknot.org/