Author: Mary Craig
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Lech Wałęsa and His Poland
Author: Mary Craig
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Strike for Freedom!
Author: Robert Eringer
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Describes the Solidarity movement in Poland, a sixteen-month-old struggle by the independent trade union movement and its worker leader, Lech Walesa.
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Describes the Solidarity movement in Poland, a sixteen-month-old struggle by the independent trade union movement and its worker leader, Lech Walesa.
The Struggle and the Triumph
Author: Lech Wałęsa
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559701495
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559701495
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Author: Robert Brier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.
Empowering Revolution
Author: Gregory F. Domber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469618524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
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.
Lech Walesa
Author: Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
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.
Solidarity's Secret
Author: Shana Penn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime
A Way of Hope
Author: Lech Wałęsa
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805006681
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805006681
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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
Polish Revolution
Author: Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006388494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Timothy Garton Ash was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 when the trade union Solidarity was born, in opposition to the Communist government. He witnessed their bravery and defiance and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in the country's future president, Lech Walesa. This text recreates the ideals and terrors of that time, and exposes the mechanics of oppression of the communist regime.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006388494
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Timothy Garton Ash was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 when the trade union Solidarity was born, in opposition to the Communist government. He witnessed their bravery and defiance and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in the country's future president, Lech Walesa. This text recreates the ideals and terrors of that time, and exposes the mechanics of oppression of the communist regime.
Lech Walesa(oop)
Author: Tony Kaye
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN: 9781555468569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A biography of the Polish man who was instrumental in forming the first independent trade union in a communist country.
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN: 9781555468569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A biography of the Polish man who was instrumental in forming the first independent trade union in a communist country.