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Dissent: Normalization and Its Discontents Get access

Kyrill Kunakhovich
in Cornell Scholarship Online > Communism's Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany
Published: 15 January 2023
... democracy and proclaim the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) as its leading political force. It details the formation of the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR) created in September 1976 to support victims of state repression. Konsument The Consumer Kraków Newspaper Leipzig People’s Paper Polish United...
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Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe: Democratisation reconsidered

Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe: Democratisation reconsidered Get access

Helen Hardman
in Manchester Scholarship Online
Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 01 February 2012
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The PUWP Conference, 4–5 May 1989: Too Little, Too Late Get access

Helen Hardman
in Manchester Scholarship Online > Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe: Democratisation reconsidered
Published: 01 February 2012
... United Workers' Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Gorbachev Mikhail Jaruzelski Wojciech Miller Leszek perestroika Urban Jerzy Kubiak Hieronim Comintern Gierek Edward import led growth Solidarity Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Dubček Aleksandr Kania Stanisław...
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“Sovereignty for Sale” Domestic Politics and International Relations in the Early Twenty-first Century, 2006–2010 Get access

Tennyson S. D. Joseph
in Mississippi Scholarship Online > Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010
Published: 16 August 2011
...This chapter examines the period from 2006–2010, which coincided with the onset of a crisis in global neoliberalism. The discussions cover the St. Lucians’ election of the United Workers’ Party (UWP) into office on 11 December 2006; the decision to switch diplomatic relations from China to Taiwan...
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Battling for the Soul of the Bieszczady Get access

Patrice M. Dabrowski
in Cornell Scholarship Online > The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine
Published: 15 October 2021
.... The change largely came after the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) gained a new leader in Edward Gierek, who had ideas to improve the material conditions of his compatriots in the Polish People's Republic. The chapter discusses the activism for and against the development of Bieszczady while referencing...