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Timothy Garton Ash was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 when the trade union Solidarity was born, in opposition to the Communist government. He witnessed their bravery and defiance and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in the country's future president, Lech Walesa. This text recreates the ideals and terrors of that time, and exposes the mechanics of oppression of the communist regime. In a postscript, Ash describes Solidarity's long underground struggle, its return in 1989 and the ironies of its, and Lech Walesa's, subsequent disintegration.
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About the Author:
Timothy Garton Ash is a Fellow of St. Antony's College , Oxford. He is the author of THE FILE and HISTORY OF THE PRESENT, as well as his trilogy of the collapse of Soviet rule in Central Europe and its aftermath, THE POLISH REVOLUTION, WE THE PEOPLEand THE USES OF ADVERSITY (reissued simultaneously by Penguin).
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0006388493
- ISBN 13 9780006388494
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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