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Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wojciech Jaruzelski , 1923-, Polish military and political leader. He fought in World War II, became a general in 1956, and began his rise in the Communist party in 1960. During the 1981 crisis involving the trade union Solidarity , Jaruzelski became premier and party leader. Known as a moderate,... Read more |
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Solidarity
Solidarity Polish independent trade union federation formed in Sept., 1980. Led by Lech Wałęsa , it grew rapidly in size and political power and soon posed a threat to Poland's Communist government by its sponsorship of labor strikes and other forms of public protest. Rural Solidarity, a... Read more |
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Lech Walesa
Lech Wałęsa , 1943-, Polish labor and political leader. He worked as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk but was dismissed in 1976 for his antigovernment protests. In 1980 striking workers at the shipyard won his reinstatement, and he assumed leadership of the independent... Read more |
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Communist Party
Communist party in the United States, political party that espoused the Marxist-Leninist principles of communism . Origins The first Communist parties in the United States were founded in 1919 by dissident factions of the Socialist party. The larger, which called itself the Communist... Read more |
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Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang , 1915-89, Chinese Communist political leader, b. Hunan prov. A protegé of Deng Xiaoping , Hu became general secretary of the Communist party in 1980 and party chairman in 1981, effectively replacing Hua Guofeng as leader of the Communist party. In the wake of student... Read more |
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Konstantin Rokossovsky
Konstantin Rokossovsky , 1896-1968, Soviet general, b. Warsaw. He entered the czarist army and in 1917 joined the Bolshevik forces in the Russian Revolution. Purged in 1937, he was rehabilitated in 1940. In World War II he distinguished himself at Moscow, Stalingrad (later Volgograd), and Kursk and... Read more |
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Yuri Vladimirovich
ANDROPOV, YURI VLADIMIROVICH (1914–1984), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982–1984). Y... Read more |
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Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht , 1893-1973, Communist leader in the German Democratic Republic. A founder of the German Communist party, he fled Germany in 1933 and went to Moscow, where he was a member of the politburo of the exiled German Communist party. Ulbricht entered Germany with the Russian troops in 1945.... Read more |
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Chinese Communist Party
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Communist Party (India)
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