Na Szewskiej. Sprawa Stanisława Pyjasa

On the morning of 7 May 1977, the body of Stanisław Pyjas was found in a building on Szewska Street in Kraków. A student of Polish literature, he belonged to an informal group at the Jagiellonian University that had contacts with the Workers' Defence Committee and was being worked on by the secret police, which had planted informers among its members. Suspicion fell on the police at once; his friends led a mourning march that gave rise to the city's first open student opposition group. From police files and witnesses' accounts, the book reconstructs both investigations, under communism and after 1991, and follows the students' later lives.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

414 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, 1977

First published

2023 by Czytelnik

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788307035581 (original)