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Introduction: Lech Walesa's A Way of Hope
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BOOK WORLD
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1 / 1988 |
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This month's Book World features Solidarity leader Lech Walesa's autobiography, A Way of Hope. As Walesa's story makes clear, Poland's Solidarity is more than an independent trade union movement: It is a movement of national liberation. Led by Walesa, Solidarity is more than an independent trade union movement: it is a movement of national liberation. Led by Walesa, Solidarity is the largest sustained nonviolent liberation movement to oppose communism. The World & I explores both Walesa's own vision and how he is seen by other Solidarity activists, a lively and diversified political, cultural, and intellectual group. The writers and artists appearing here are Polish and are actively involved with Solidarity.
·Excerpts from A Way of Hope by Lech Walesa
The leader of Solidarity tells the story of his life.
The World & I excerpts from every chapter of the story: Walesa's youth, his life as a worker in the Gdansk shipyards, the 1970 strike that thrust Walesa into prominence as a labor leader, the exploitation of workers in the 1970s, the 1980 strike that culminated in the legalization of Solidarity, and the declaration of martial law that forced Solidarity underground, where it remains today.
·Commentaries on Lech Walesa's A Way of Hope
Peter Mrocyzk, in "The Man and the Movement," explains how Walesa's life contributes to an understanding of Solidarity. Mrocyzk, formerly head of Solidarity in Polish radio and television, is presently head of Solidarity Endowment, a nonprofit Washington, D.C., organization that raises money for the Solidarity
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