1st Edition
The Polish Crisis and Relations with Eastern Europe, 1979-1982 Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume X
526 Pages
by
Routledge
526 Pages
by
Routledge
526 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume presents a collection of diplomatic documents describing Britain’s relations with Eastern Europe from 1979 to 1982, with special focus on the crisis in Poland. After coming to power in 1979, the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher reaffirmed a policy of ‘differentiation’ between the Soviet Union and the rest of Eastern Europe, and between individual countries; concurrently... Read more
Preface
I: ‘Differentiation’ and the emergence of Solidarity: 18 September 1979 — 10 December 1981
II: The imposition of martial law in Poland: 13 December 1981 — 23 December 1982
Biography
Isabelle Tombs is former Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Richard Smith is Senior Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
