ABSTRACT
This chapter summarises and synthesises the main findings of the book. Truth-revelation debates recurred in Poland because they were considered part of the ‘unfinished business’ of a contested and apparently flawed democratic transition. This questions the notion of elite pacting as the most normatively desirable form of regime change. While instrumental-strategic motives were evident, so were ideological-programmatic concerns, and it was difficult in practice to separate out the two. Truth-revelation debates were not solely elite-driven and recurred, in part at least, due to popular demand.
