The lost treasure of Solidarity: embarrassment and amnesia.(Poland)

From: Social Research | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Matynia, Elzbieta | Copyright information

TWENTY-ONE years after its birth as an independent, self-governing trade union, Solidarity is still difficult to categorize, since it does not resemble any other known form of association. Perhaps Michael Walzer's observation best grasps the conditions and outcome of the August 1980 Gdansk agreements with the Communist government that legalized independent union activity: that despite the generally prevailing norm (that is, the natural human tendency to model new associations on ex...

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