Anti Communist Solidarity

Author : Larissa Rosa Corrêa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732917

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Anti-Communist Solidarity by Larissa Rosa Corrêa Pdf

Since the 1960s, many influential Latin Americans, such as the leaders of student movements and unions, and political authorities, participated in exchange programs with the United States to learn about the American way of life. In Brazil, during the international context of the Cold War, when Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship ruled by generals who alternated in power, hundreds of union members were sent to the United States to take union education courses. Did they come back “Americanized” and able to introduce American trade unionism in Brazil? That is the question this book seeks to answer. It is a subject that is as yet little explored in the history of Latin American labor and international relations: the influence of foreign union organizations on national union politics and movements. Despite the US’s investment in advertising, courses, films and trips offered to Brazilian union members, most of them were not convinced by the American ideas on how to organize an “authentic” union movement – or, at least, not committed to applying what they learned in the States.

Author : Jack M. Bloom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004252769

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Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution by Jack M. Bloom Pdf

In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity--the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution explains how it happened, from the imposition to Communism to its end, based on 150 interviews of Solidarity leaders, activists, supporters and opponents. Bloom presents the perspectives and experiences of these participants. He shows how an opposition was built, the battle between Solidarity and the ruling party, the conflicts that emerged within each side during this tense period, how Solidarity survived the imposition of martial law and how the opposition forced the government to negotiate itself out of power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324824

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International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939 by Anonim Pdf

International Communism and Transnational Solidarity offers an analysis of the organization of radical international solidarity by so-called ‘Non-Party Mass Organisations’ and ‘Sympathising Organisations for Special Purposes’ that had been established by or were connected to the Communist International.

Author : Lee Trepanier,Spasimir Domaradzki,Jaclyn Stanke
Publisher : Krakowskie Towarzystwo Eduk
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 9788375711363

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The Solidarity Movement and Perspectives on the Last Decade of the Cold War by Lee Trepanier,Spasimir Domaradzki,Jaclyn Stanke Pdf

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Author : David Ost
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877229007

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Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics by David Ost Pdf

Based on extensive use of primary sources, this book provides an analysis of Solidarity, from its ideological origins in the Polish "new left," through the dramatic revolutionary months of 1980-81, and up to the union?s remarkable resurgence in 1988-89, when it sat down with the government to negotiate Poland?s future. David Ost focuses on what Solidarity is trying to accomplish and why it is likely that the movement will succeed. He traces the conflict between the ruling Communist Party and the opposition, Solidarity?s response to it, and the resulting reforms. Noting that Poland is the one country in the world where "radicals of ?68" came to be in a position to negotiate with a government about the nature of the political system, Ost asks what Poland tells us about the possibility for realizing a "new left" theory of democracy in the modern world. As a Fulbright Fellow at Warsaw University and Polish correspondent for the weekly newspaper In These Times during the Solidarity uprising and a frequent visitor to Poland since then, David Ost has had access to a great deal of unpublished material on the labor movement. Without dwelling on the familiar history of August 1980, he offers some of the unfamiliar subtleties?such as the significance of the Szczecin as opposed to the Gdansk Accord?and shows how they shaped the budding union?s understanding of the conflicts ahead. Unique in its attention to the critical, formative period following August 1980, this study is the most current and comprehensive analysis of a movement that continues to transform the nature of East European society.

Author : Charles Wankel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349125500

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Anti-Communist Student Organizations and the Polish Renewal by Charles Wankel Pdf

Offers an account of the key role of Polish student movements in the rebirth of their country. It provides a history of student activism in Poland and explains the context in which recent changes have occurred.

Author : Andrzej Paczkowski
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465366

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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland, 1980-1989 by Andrzej Paczkowski Pdf

Examines the 1980 Solidarity revolution in Poland, the government's subsequent establishment of martial law in response, in 1981, and the eventual transition to democracy in 1989.

Author : David Ost
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501729270

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The Defeat of Solidarity by David Ost Pdf

How did the fall of communism and the subsequent transition to capitalism in Eastern Europe affect the people who experienced it? And how did their anger affect the quality of the democratic systems that have emerged? Poland offers a particularly provocative case, for it was here where workers most famously seemed to have won, thanks to the role of the Solidarity trade union. And yet, within a few short years, they had clearly lost. An oppressive communist regime gave way to a capitalist society that embraced economic and political inequality, leaving many workers frustrated and angry. Their leaders first ignored them, then began to fear them, and finally tried to marginalize them. In turn, workers rejected their liberal leaders, opening the way for right-wing nationalists to take control of Solidarity. Ost tells a fascinating story about the evolution of postcommunist society in Eastern Europe. Informed by years of fieldwork in Polish factory towns, scores of interviews with workers, labor activists, and politicians, and an exhaustive reading of primary sources, his new book gives voice to those who have not been heard. But even more, Ost proposes a novel theory about the role of anger in politics to show why such voices matter, and how they profoundly affect political outcomes. Drawing on Poland's experiences, Ost describes lessons relevant to democratization throughout Eastern Europe and to democratic theory in general.

Author : Seth G. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393247015

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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland by Seth G. Jones Pdf

The dramatic, untold story of one of the CIA’s most successful Cold War intelligence operations. December, 1981—the CIA receives word that the Polish government has cut telephone communications with the West and closed the Polish border. The agency’s leaders quickly inform President Ronald Reagan, who is enjoying a serene weekend at Camp David. Within hours, Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski has appeared on Polish national television to announce the establishment of martial law. A new era in Cold War politics has begun: Washington and Moscow are on a collision course. In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the little-known story of the CIA’s subsequent operations in Poland, which produced a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. While the Soviet-backed Polish government worked to crush a budding liberal opposition movement, the CIA began a sophisticated intelligence campaign, code-named QRHELPFUL, that supported dissident groups. The most powerful of these groups was Solidarity, a trade union that swelled to a membership of ten million and became one of the first legitimate anti-Communist opposition movements in Eastern Europe. With President Reagan’s support, the CIA provided money that helped Solidarity print newspapers, broadcast radio programs, and conduct a wide-ranging information warfare campaign against the Soviet-backed government. QRHELPFUL proved vital in establishing a free and democratic Poland. Long overlooked by CIA historians and Reagan biographers, the story of QRHELPFUL features an extraordinary cast of characters—including spymaster Bill Casey, CIA officer Richard Malzahn, Polish-speaking CIA case officer Celia Larkin, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, and Pope John Paul II. Based on in-depth interviews and recently declassified evidence, A Covert Action celebrates a decisive victory over tyranny for U.S. intelligence behind the Iron Curtain, one that prefigured the Soviet collapse.

Author : Kasper Braskén
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137546869

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The International Workers’ Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity by Kasper Braskén Pdf

The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany. The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in their liberation and resistance movements and how solidarity networks transferred visions and ideas of an alternative global community.

Author : Jan Kubik
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780271042138

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Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power by Jan Kubik Pdf

Author : Ireneusz Krzemiński
Publisher : Studies in Political Transition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 3631672705

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Solidarity: the Unfulfilled Project of Polish Democracy by Ireneusz Krzemiński Pdf

This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement and its impact on social change. The major one reports on the author's 1981 study on the formation of the Solidarity movement and trade union, one of two research projects on Solidarity carried out at the time. The idea of debating (deliberative) democracy fostered by Solidarity proved an unfulfilled utopia. It was abandoned by the new political elite and by Poles, who used freedom to develop individual, ambitious and aggressive career paths in order to attain West-European living standards. While Polish religiosity and the Catholic Church, led by Pope John Paul II, vitally promoted peaceable resistance to communism, now the Church has morphed into an anti-democratic political and cultural actor.

Author : Shana Penn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0472031961

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Solidarity's Secret by Shana Penn Pdf

The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime

Author : David Ost
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0801443180

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The Defeat of Solidarity by David Ost Pdf

How did the fall of communism and the transition to capitalism in Eastern Europe affect the people who experienced it? Informed by years of fieldwork in Polish towns, interviews with workers and politicians, and reading of primary sources, Ost's book gives voice to those who have not been heard.

Author : Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, Republic of China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : UCD:31175038029057

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Development of the Chinese People's Anti-communist Movement by Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, Republic of China Pdf