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...event—sponsored by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates, the Institute of Politics, and Kirkland House—Styron told stories about joining protests with college students in Germany, being invited to a secret meeting of Poland??s underground resistance movement with author Kurt Vonnegut, and attending the Amnesty International World Concert Tour with Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen. "It was the most fun I’ve done with anything in my life," Styron said...
Despite their grief, most Polish students showed optimism about both Poland??s domestic stability and the country’s ability to recover from the tragedy...
...recently translated novel, “The Mighty Angel.”A darkly humorous, yet undeniably serious, look into the life of a repeatedly relapsing alcoholic (also named Jerzy) and his recovering brethren in and out of rehab comes as no great surprise from one of Poland??s most celebrated writers. “The Mighty Angel” cemented Pilch’s reputation, earning him Poland??s NIKE Literary Award in 2001. It was well-deserved. Pilch unflinchingly confronts the emotional reality of alcoholism and suggests a more sobering reality beyond sobriety.It...
...took on the world’s largest army and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, eventually toppling the Communist regime in Warsaw. They achieved this feat not through violent revolution, but through a series of negotiations that became famous as the Round Table talks. The defeat of Communism in Poland??which was soon followed by its total collapse in Eastern Europe and, in 1991, the Soviet Union itself—should properly be regarded as one of the greatest triumphs in European history...
...collapse of Communism in Poland was precipitated by both economic crisis and political ferment. By 1988, Poland??s command economy, overwhelmed by $6 billion of foreign debt and paralyzed by governmental incompetence, was in serious decline. Workers’ complaints over rising prices precipitated strikes and protests in 1970, 1976, 1980, and 1988. In July, a standoff between miners and the government saw the re-emergence of Solidarity, an illegal trade union...