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Original table displayed at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Communist Poland, from 6 February to 5 April 1989. [1] The government initiated talks with the banned trade union Solidarność and other opposition groups to defuse growing social unrest.
The Revolutions of 1989, ... On 4 June 1989, Poland's Solidarity trade union won an overwhelming victory in partially free elections, ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 June 1989 to elect members of the Sejm and the recreated Senate, with a second round on 18 June.They were the first elections in the country since the communist government abandoned its monopoly of power in April 1989 and the first elections in the Eastern Bloc that resulted in the communist government losing power.
Now 30 years removed from 1989's "annus mirabilis" -- Central and Eastern Europe's year of miracles, when communist regimes seemingly toppled like dominoes -- it's easy to focus on the Western ...
The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May and August 1988. In an attempt to take control of the situation, the contemporary government gave de facto recognition to the Solidarity union, and Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak began talks with Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa on August 31.
The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Marxist–Leninist regime in Poland after the end of World War II.These years, while featuring general industrialization, urbanization and many improvements in the standard of living, were marred by early Stalinist repressions, social unrest, political strife and severe economic difficulties.
A Carnival of Revolution : Central Europe 1989. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11627-X. Kenney, Patrick (2006). The Burdens of Freedom. Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 1-84277-662-2. Kubik, Jan (1994). The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The rise of Solidarity and the fall of state socialism in Poland. The Pennsylvania State University.
This process later culminated in the Revolutions of 1989. In the 1990s, Solidarity's influence on politics of Poland waned. A political arm of the Solidarity movement, Solidarity Electoral Action ( AWS ), was founded in 1996 and would win the 1997 Polish parliamentary election , only to lose the subsequent 2001 Polish parliamentary election .