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Country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland.
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History of Poland (1945–1989)
27 linksThe history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of communist rule imposed over Poland after the end of World War II.
Polish United Workers' Party
23 linksThe Polish United Workers' Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989.
Poland
21 linksCountry in Central Europe.
Country in Central Europe.
As a member of the Eastern Bloc in the global Cold War, the Polish People's Republic was a founding signatory of the Warsaw Pact.
Eastern Bloc
20 linksThe group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War .
The group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War .
In Western Europe, the term Eastern Bloc generally referred to the USSR and its satellite states and puppet states in the Comecon (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, People's Republic of Bulgaria, People's Republic of Quandale, and Albania).
Soviet Union
19 linksTranscontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
The country bordered (from 1945 to 1991): Norway, Finland, the Baltic Sea, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Black Sea, Turkey, Iran, the Caspian Sea, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
14 linksPolish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.
Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.
The survival of Solidarity was an unprecedented event not only in Poland, a satellite state of the USSR ruled in practice by a one-party Communist state, but the whole of the Eastern bloc.
Warsaw Pact
10 linksThe Warsaw Pact (WP) or Treaty of Warsaw, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
Lech Wałęsa
11 linksPolish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995.
Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995.
A shipyard electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
Władysław Gomułka
10 linksPolish communist politician.
Polish communist politician.
He was the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948.
Martial law in Poland
10 linksMartial law in Poland (Stan wojenny w Polsce) existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983.
Martial law in Poland (Stan wojenny w Polsce) existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983.
The government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted everyday life by introducing martial law and a military junta in an attempt to counter political opposition, in particular the Solidarity movement.