Kor: A History of the Workers' Defense Committee in Poland 1976-1981 Lipski Jan Jzef
Kor: A History of the Workers' Defense Committee in Poland 1976-1981 Lipski Jan Jzef The signing of the Gdansk Agreements in August 1980 signaled the birth of the Solidarity independent trae union…
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Kor: A History of the Workers' Defense Committee in Poland 1976-1981 Lipski Jan Jzef
The signing of the Gdansk Agreements in August 1980 signaled the birth of the Solidarity independent trae union movement. But the events of August 1980 did not materialize from thin air. The sixteen months that followed until the December 1981 declaration of martial law remain one of the most fascinating chapter in the history of communist states.
This group called itself the Komitet Obrony Robotnikow (KOR) or the Worker's Defense Committee. The groundwork for Solidarity was prepared five years before when a group of dissident intellectuals gathered to boldly proclaim their solidarity with persecuted workers at Random and Ursus. What was KOR?
What were the social and political circumstances that lead to its formation? And how did it presage a movement that would come to symbolize the hopes of a whole generation of Poles? The answers to these questions lie in the rare insights provided
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