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ONLINE: Since 1989: Poland s Democratic Experience
Feb 18, 2021 4:00 PM
press release: Don Pienkos, Professor Emeritus, the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
This talk will be given over Zoom: REGISTER HERE.
In 1989, Poland, thanks primarily to the efforts of the Solidarity movement, emerged from 44 years of Soviet domination to establish a new system of representative democratic government. Given its peopleâs extremely difficult situation at that time, coupled with Polandâs failed experience with democratic governance in the years after its national rebirth in 1918, few observers were hopeful about the chances for democratic governance after 1989.
Why they were proven wrong,
how Polish democracy has developed over the past three decades, andÂ