God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 487 when the Soviet Army occupied eastern Poland, he and his family had been cap- tured and deported to Si ...

488 SOLIDARNOSC Soviet leadership had decided on a show of strength, if not in the form of direct military intervention at least ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 489 stretched for miles. Solidarity stewards kept cheerful order. Watfsa and his associates toured the cou ...

490 SOLIDARNOSC national life, enjoying a level of respect and personal authority unrivalled among his contemporaries. He had be ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 491 could apparently act independently of the main Party apparatus and which, if necessary, could overthro ...

SOLIDARNOSC was swiftly and efficiently crushed. The element of surprise was very effective. By the end of the year, the armed ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 493 Major disturbances on 31 August, the second anniversary of the Gdansk agree- ment, and on 8 November, ...

494 SOLIDARNOSC The imbalance of foreign trade could only be regulated by the summary cancel- lation of imports, on which the re ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 495 not feel inclined to exploit its new-found powers to the full. It was curiously inhibited, and by Sovi ...

496 SOLIDARNOSC of their Polish military aides; but there was no clue as to where it would end up. Nor could there be. The formu ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 497 world of its own, completely divorced from government-approved agencies. Jarazelski undoubtedly posses ...

498 SOLIDARNOSC every aspect of Communist ideology — in philosophy, religion, history, political theory, economics, and general ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 499 Jaruzelski, who had earlier introduced a State Tribunal for investigating former Party leaders, posed ...

500 SOLIDARNOSC political collapse, it firmly planted the idea of such an eventuality in its readers' minds. The principal strat ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 501 The impasse came to a head in the late summer of 1988. When strikes broke out, both in Gdansk and else ...

502 SOLIDARNOSC Czechoslovakia and East Germany were deeply anxious. When the Round Table finally assembled in the Viceregal Pal ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 503 still have left Solidarity in a largely 'decorative' position. But then Kwasniewski came up with the i ...

504 SOLIDARNOSC photograph taken with Lech Walesa for his electoral poster.) Solidarity com- pletely dominated the Senate. On 19 ...

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 505 When he took his place at the Council of Warsaw Pact, the only non- Communist participant since the fo ...

506 SOLIDARNOSC In subsequent years, Professor Balcerowicz would often be asked about the secret of his success. In the decade t ...