abstract:Young Poland () was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism which followed the suppression of the 1863 January Uprising against the occupying army of Imperial Russia.
Sociologist Justyna Kopczynska from Warsaw University explains that young people in Poland realize that the communist government was repressive.
VOA: standard.2009.12.16
"Emotions are high, and it's a struggle for us all to make sense of something so senseless, but let us keep this young student, his family, and Mr. Poland's family in our thoughts and prayers, " he said.
Such hopeful features have helped promote fresh interest among young Polish Jews and quite a few Gentiles in Poland's Jewish history since the communist era, when many Poles of Jewish background thought it wise to blur their ancestry.
The standoff began last Tuesday after the 66-year-old bus driver, Charles Albert Poland, tried to stop Dykes boarding the bus and seizing two young boys, aged six and eight.