Author: Radio Free EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Poland Under Martial Law
Author: Radio Free EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Poland Under Martial Law
Author: Roman StefanowskiPoland Under Martial Law
Author: Poland Under Martial Law
Author: From Solidarity to Martial Law
Author: Andrzej PaczkowskiPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789637326967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Presents 95 documents on the months between Au. 1980 when Solidarity was founded and Dec. 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the opposition movement.
Poland Under Martial Law, a Selection of Documents
Author: Solidarity and Martial Law in Poland
Author: Malcolm ByrneA Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
Author: Seth G. JonesPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
From Solidarity to Martial Law
Author: Andrzej PaczkowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Presents 95 documents on the months between Au. 1980 when Solidarity was founded and Dec. 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the opposition movement.
Rewolucja
Author: Robert E. BlobaumPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501705342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this watershed period. Drawing on extensive archival research to explore the history of Poland's revolutionary upheavals, Blobaum departs from traditional interpretations of these events as peripheral to an essentially Russian movement that reached a climax in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He demonstrates that, although Polish independence was not formally recognized until after World War I, the social and political conditions necessary for nationhood were established in the years around 1905.