Anatomy of Success:Anatomy of Success:Poland sincePoland since
SolidaritySolidarityPadraic Kenney
Indiana UniversityIndiana University22 November 2010
The Carnival
August 1980 - December 1981August, 1980 December 1981
Communism falls, 1989
• Round Table negotiations, February-Mayeb ua y ay
• Election, June 1989
Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2009in 2009…
and in 2010…and in 2010
Politics since 1989Politics since 1989
• 1990: “War at the Top” splits Solidarityy• 1993/95: post-communists elected; lustration
battles begin• 1997: constitution approved; post-communists
defeated• Return of post communists 2001• Return of post-communists, 2001• European Union referendum 2003; join 2004• 2005-07: in and out of the “Fourth Republic”• 2005-07: in and out of the Fourth Republic• April 2010: Smolensk crash; presidential election
Europride parade, Warsaw, July 2010
German expulsions 1945-46
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German expulsions, 1945-46
1. 2.
1. Mirosław Dzielski
3. 4.2. Jan Józef Lipski3. Jacek Kuroń4. Zbigniew Romaszewski
Solidarity Congress, Gdansk, September 1980
Wroclaw, 1986-1988