Abstract
Any attempt to assess the March riots in Poland must obviously take into account the parallel incidents in Czechoslovakia. Almost certainly they are part of the same process and are a continuation under different circumstances of the many changes which have taken place since the death of Stalin, including the dramatic events of 1956. Not unexpectedly, the events in Poland and Czechoslovakia show certain similarities. Both originated in the increasing disillusionment of the intellectuals and both erupted in student riots. Also, the thrust of both upheavals was directed toward reform of the political system rather than toward its elimination. It was not against socialism as such, but against what the party leaders had made of that concept. But here the resemblance between the two ends and the differences
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