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This study sets out to examine the role of ideology in a socialist state and the way it may change over time. More specifically, it focuses on ideological developments in Poland. The period covered is from October 1956, when Gomulka acceded to power, to the end of 1983, when both Solidarity and martial law were treated as history by the Jaruzelski leadership.
Research for this study was carried out in Poland in the period between October 1977 and June 1982, whilst the author was completing a doctoral programme at the University of Warsaw. The present monograph is a shortened version of a dissertation submitted to that University in October 1981. Two new chapters – on the Solidarity and martial law periods – have been added since. I would like to emphasise that responsibility for the overall content of the present study is mine alone.
The analytical framework of the study focuses on official discourse of party rulers and was adopted well before the birth of Solidarity. Theoretically it would have been possible to adjust the research design after August 1980 to include Solidarity's discourse as well. But the enormous scholarly interest that the movement provoked, and still inspires, allows the author to rest easy that what he did not undertake in this study has been more than adequately undertaken by others.
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