I. The four days that shook Poland. 1. Gomulka - from prison to power -- 2. The death of "Po Prostu" -- 3. History rewritten -- 4. The protocols of the Stalin inquisition -- 5. Before the earthquake -- 6. The eighth plenum -- 7. The battle against the revisionists -- II. A City in turmoil. 8. Warsaw, the martyred capital -- 9. The trial of Poland's Beria -- 10. Cherries, fish, and Stalinist justice -- 11. The decline and fall of Jakub Berman -- 12. The Polish economic model -- III. Between East and West. 13. The recovered territories -- 14. The Soviet "corridor" in Poland -- 15. The repatriates -- 16. Atomic spectre over Legnica -- 17. Fear of the future -- IV. The church state paradox. 18. Cracow, the living museum of Poland -- 19. The Polish millennium -- 20. The "heresy" of Cardinal Wyszynski -- 21. The Black Madonna and the red star -- 22. Pax Moscoviae -- 23. Nowa Huta, showplace of Communist Poland -- V. The Warsaw heresy. 24. The eternal dialogue on power and ethics -- 25. Toward the future.