The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (Third Edition)
by Timothy Garton Ash
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In August 1980, the Lenin Shipyard workers in Gdansk won the unprecedented right to form independent trades unions in a Communist country. This account describes the strike and the emergence of Lech Walesa as leader. The strike and its ongoing effects in the whole Soviet bloc are analyzed.Tags
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Very interesting but hard to follow all the names and parties involved.
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Timothy Garton Ash is a fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, and of the Hoover Institution, Stanford.
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 943.8 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Poland
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- DK4442 .G37 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Poland History 1945-1989. People's Republic
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- English, Polish
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