Ditching Communism in Poland

 This interview is the first in the Pitt REEES Spring Series “Openness, Acceleration, Restructuring: The Soviet 1980s.” See the full schedule. Guest: Tom Junes is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and as a postdoctoral researcher he has held fellowships in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy. He’s the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2015. Music: Public Image Ltd., “Bad Life,” Live in Tokyo, 1983.