1st Edition

Poles Apart Pb Solidarity and The New Poland

By Jacqueline Hayden Copyright 1994

    First published in 1994. This book offers the reader a first-hand account of the people who have been central to Poland’s transformation since the early 1980s. With interviews of main actors: Lech Walesa, Wojciech Jaruzelski and leaders of Solidarity. Also observed and covered are the Gdansk shipyard strikes, martial law, a move towards democracy from Communism and the Round Table talks of 1989.

    Irish Slavonic Studies- " an interesting and sympathetic study of ...political evolution into the post-communist period

    Biography

    Jacqueline Hayden