Instytut Pamięci Narodowej

Shady Networks. Studies on Socialist Economy, Crime, and the Black Market in the Last Two Decades of the Polish People’s Republic, edited by Karol Nawrocki and Daniel Wicenty, Warsaw 2024, 296 pp., ISBN 978-83-8376-198-5

Shady Networks offers unique insights into the criminal history of twentieth-century communist Poland. Built around case studies at the intersections of government institutions, business, foreign trade, and the criminal underworld, the book scrutinizes the organization of particular social settings, analyzing the circumstances, contexts, and mechanisms that enabled their growth.