The road from Gdansk: how Solidarity found haven in the marketplace. (Polish labor union)

From: Monthly Review | Date: July 1, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

THE ROAD FROM GDANSK: HOW SOLIDARITY FOUND HAVEN IN THE MARKETPLACE

If the purpose of history is to link past and present, then the recently-concluded presidential theatrics in Poland offer a provocative challenge to historical imagination. Buried beneath the reporting on Poland's first contested election in forty-five years lies a story yet to be told by those who would uncover the lineages of the present. The broad outlines are familiar. Two moments in recent history--1980 and 1990--are joined in the person of one individual: the electrician who scaled the walls of the Lenin ...

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