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G 8 Challenging Systems: Solidarity and the Civil Rights Movement: Solidarity & Civil Rights Background Reading

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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Lech Walesa
Solidarity

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Solidarność (Solidarity) brings down the communist government of Poland, 1988-89
Pushing Back the Curtain (BBC)
Ronald Reagan: Radio Address to the Nation on Solidarity and United States Relations with Poland

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Modern World History
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Solidarity
Lech Walesa
General Wojciech Jaruzelski
Jaruzelski's Martial Law Decree
Father Jerzy Popieluszko

Global Issues in Context

Global Issues in Context
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"Martial Law Is Imposed in Poland: December 13, 1981."
"Solidarity's Message." Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
"Less Walesa; good revolutionaries tend to make bad rulers." The Economist,