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When in the summer of 1920, the Red Army invaded newly independent
Poland hoping to use it as a base for carrying out communist
revolutions in the West, it met with unexpected resistance not only
from the propertied class, but also from peasants and workers. The
Poles had a remarkably clear understanding of communism's
implications for freedom and human rights. Contributors to Polish
Perspectives on Communism accurately grasped, decades before it was
actually tried, what communism would mean in practice. These
authors-some writing in the mid-1800s-understood the consequences
of abolishing property, as preached by the communists, and of their
rejection of religion and the rule of law. They anticipated the
gruesome features of Leninism-Stalinism long before the collapse of
the Soviet Union opened the eyes of its Western admirers. The
authors in this anthology dispel the illusion that if communism
failed in Russia it was due to an accident of history, having been
tried in the wrong country and implemented by incompetent leaders.
The evidence presented here should demonstrate that its failure was
not only inevitable, but also anticipated long before it occurred.
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