The Road to Gdansk: Poland and the U.S.S.R.

by Daniel Singer

Thirty days before the hot summer of 1980 began in Gdansk, Poland, with the bold and determined strike of shipyard workers, Daniel Singer completed this remarkable book on the dissident movement in eastern Europe, based on thirty years of work as a dedicated socialist and journalist specializing in that region. The book places the present situation in the historical context of the post-World War II dissident movements in the Soviet Union and Poland.

Genres: Poland

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Daniel Singer was a Polish-American socialist writer and journalist. He was best known for his articles for The Nation in the United States and for The Economist in Britain, serving for decades as a European correspondent for each magazine.
Gore Vidal described Singer as "one of the best, and certainly the sanest, interpreters of things European for American readers", with a "Balzacian eye for human detail." Mike Davis labelled Singer "the left's most brilliant arsonist", with a talent for "set[ting] ablaze whole forests of desiccated cliches".