Lech Wałęsa and His Poland
Author | : Mary Craig |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015014394889 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
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Author | : Mary Craig |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015014394889 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Author | : Michael R. Dobbs |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781483153469 |
ISBN-13 | : 1483153460 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a three-chapter book that details the life and significant contribution of Lech Walesa of Poland. Lech Walesa is the leader of an independent labor organization - Solidarity. The book begins with the background of crisis in Poland. The peaceful revolution is then described. The last chapter elaborates on the concept of Lech Walesa as the symbol of Polish August.
Author | : Robert Eringer |
Publisher | : New York : Dodd, Mead |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105037429003 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Describes the Solidarity movement in Poland, a sixteen-month-old struggle by the independent trade union movement and its worker leader, Lech Walesa.
Author | : Lech Wałęsa |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : 1559701498 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781559701495 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Walesa's autobiography provides a firsthand, inside history of Solidarity from 1984 to the present, as seen and told by its founder, the recently elected president of Poland. Here is the lively tale of the impassioned young electrician's rise from the Gdansk shipyard to the presidency, and of the events that ushered Poland into a new age. 8 pages of photographs.
Author | : Rebecca Stefoff |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1992-03-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 0449906256 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780449906255 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Witness history in the making as you turn the pages of time and discover the fascinating lives of famous explorers, leaders of twentieth-century politics and government, and great Americans. One August day in 1980, Lech Walesa pushed his way past the Polish police, climbed over a twelve-foot wall, and jumped onto a bulldozer, calling to Polish shipyard workers to continue their strike for higher wages and other demands. Walesa’s fiery speech inspired the workers and kept the strike alive. His call to action that day ultimately brought about important changes in Poland and established his leadership of the movement that became known as Solidarity. Lech Walesa: The Road to Democracy chronicles Walesa’s dramatic role as the leader of his country’s democratic future and its transformation from a communist regime to a democratic government. The son of a farmer and an electrician by trade, Walesa overcame police oppression and imprisonment to lead Solidarity and win the Nobel Prize. In 1990, Lech Walesa became Poland’s first democratically elected noncommunist president.
Author | : Robert Brier |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781108478526 |
ISBN-13 | : 1108478522 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.
Author | : Gregory F. Domber |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781469618524 |
ISBN-13 | : 1469618524 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland's politically tumultuous steps toward democratic revolution. In this groundbreaking history, Gregory F. Domber examines American policy toward Poland and its promotion of moderate voices within the opposition, while simultaneously addressing the Soviet and European influences on Poland's revolution in 1989. With a cast including Reagan, Gorbachev, and Pope John Paul II, Domber charts American support of anticommunist opposition groups--particularly Solidarity, the underground movement led by future president Lech Wa&322;&281;sa--and highlights the transnational network of Polish emigres and trade unionists that kept the opposition alive. Utilizing archival research and interviews with Polish and American government officials and opposition leaders, Domber argues that the United States empowered a specific segment of the Polish opposition and illustrates how Soviet leaders unwittingly fostered radical, pro-democratic change through their policies. The result is fresh insight into the global impact of the Polish pro-democracy movement.
Author | : Lech Wałęsa |
Publisher | : Henry Holt |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0805006680 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780805006681 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
The Nobel Prize-winning Polish Solidarity leader's memoirs vividly recount harsh farm life in Eastern Poland, oppressed working conditions in the Baltic port of Gdansk, and the hard-won achievements of the Solidarity trade union movements
Author | : Andrzej Paczkowski |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9637326960 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789637326967 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Presents 95 documents on the months between Au. 1980 when Solidarity was founded and Dec. 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the opposition movement.
Author | : Shana Penn |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 0472031961 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780472031962 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime