The role women journalists played in Poland's freedom: only when solidarity won did the journalists realize '... they had formed the only all-woman cabal in Poland to make a counterstrike against martial law.'.(Words & Reflections)(Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland)(Book Review)

From: Nieman Reports | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Simpson, Peggy | Copyright information

Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland Shana Penn The University of Michigan Press. 371 Pages. $34.95.

Poland's success in getting rid of Soviet-imposed Communism and in remaking itself as a Western democratic country remains a puzzle to many folks. Shana Penn's "Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland," offers clues by focusing attention on seven Polish women who shaped the underground Solidarity newspaper, Tygodnik Mazow...

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