Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Jaroslaw Kurski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his unique insider's perspective as press spokesman for Lech Walesa from October 1989 to July 1990, Jaroslaw Kurski has written the first critical, clear-eyed account of the Polish leader's personal and political style. During his time in Walesa's office, Kurski became acquainted with the many forces and ambitions-which were unknown to t
Download or read book Lech Walesa oop written by Tony Kaye and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1989 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Polish man who was instrumental in forming the first independent trade union in a communist country.
Download or read book The Struggle and the Triumph written by Lech Wałęsa and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Way of Hope written by Lech Wałęsa and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Strike for Freedom written by Robert Eringer and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Solidarity movement in Poland, a sixteen-month-old struggle by the independent trade union movement and its worker leader, Lech Walesa.
Download or read book Poland Solidarity Walesa written by Michael R. Dobbs and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a three-chapter book that details the life and significant contribution of Lech Walesa of Poland. Lech Walesa is the leader of an independent labor organization - Solidarity. The book begins with the background of crisis in Poland. The peaceful revolution is then described. The last chapter elaborates on the concept of Lech Walesa as the symbol of Polish August.
Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1992-03-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lech Wa sa and His Poland written by Mary Craig and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Lech Wa sa written by and published by Allan Lane. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Mary Craig and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the Polish union organizer who was instrumental in gaining government recognition for Solidarity, an organization of local unions, and who won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize.
Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Mary Craig and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the Polish union organizer who was of local unions, and who won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize.
Download or read book Empowering Revolution written by Gregory F. Domber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Book of Lech Wa sa written by Neal Ascherson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Caroline Evensen Lazo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Polish union organizer who became his country's first elected president in 1990.
Download or read book Lech Walesa written by Ann Angel and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents events in the life of the Polish union organizer who after years of non-violent fighting with the government became president of his country.
Download or read book Poland s Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights written by Robert Brier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.
