Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Solidarity
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August 1980: Lech Walesa, an electrician who some years...
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August 1980
Lech Walesa
, an electrician who some years before this had lost his job at the Gdansk shipyards for trade union activity, led a strike which escalated into a revolution.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
Beaumont, Peter. “Anna Walentynowicz, whose sacking led to the rise of Solidarity”. The Observer, 11 Apr. 2010.
December 1981-May 1986: During and after the period of martial law...
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December 1981-May 1986
During and after the period of martial law which greeted the Polish Solidarity
movement, the activities of the Warsaw underground were co-ordinated by a woman living in hiding, Ewa Kulik
.
Robinson, Jean C. “Solidarity’s Disappearing Women”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
