Anatomy of Success:Anatomy of Success:Poland sincePoland since

SolidaritySolidarityPadraic Kenney

Indiana UniversityIndiana University22 November 2010

The Carnival

August 1980 - December 1981August, 1980 December 1981

Communism falls, 1989

• Round Table negotiations, February-Mayeb ua y ay

• Election, June 1989

Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2009in 2009…

and in 2010…and in 2010

Politics since 1989Politics since 1989

• 1990: “War at the Top” splits Solidarityy• 1993/95: post-communists elected; lustration

battles begin• 1997: constitution approved; post-communists

defeated• Return of post communists 2001• Return of post-communists, 2001• European Union referendum 2003; join 2004• 2005-07: in and out of the “Fourth Republic”• 2005-07: in and out of the Fourth Republic• April 2010: Smolensk crash; presidential election

Europride parade, Warsaw, July 2010

German expulsions 1945-46

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German expulsions, 1945-46

1. 2.

1. Mirosław Dzielski

3. 4.2. Jan Józef Lipski3. Jacek Kuroń4. Zbigniew Romaszewski

Solidarity Congress, Gdansk, September 1980

Wroclaw, 1986-1988