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| 2. | The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (Third Edition)
Paperback (448 pages) by Mr. Timothy Garton Ash (Yale University Press)
A brilliant eyewitness and analyst, Timothy Garton Ash in this book offers a gripping account of the Polish shipyard workers who defied their communist rulers in 1980. He describes the emergence of the improbable leader Lech Walesa, the ensuing tumult that culminated in martial law, and -- for this updated version -- the fate of the Solidarity movement in subsequent years.
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| 5. | Strike
DVD Directed by Volker Schlöndorff,featuring Katharina Thalbach; Dominique Horwitz; Wojciech Solarz; Andrzej Grabowski; Ewa Telega; Andrzej Chyra (MPI HOME VIDEO)
- The heroine of the shipyards - tells the story of a simple worker, who was the cause of the strike on the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, which led to the creation of the first free unions and ultimately the downfall of the soviet system. She was an orphan, analphabet, communist activist and fervent catholic, a bundle of a woman who fought with wit and cunning for justice at her workplace, not kno
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| 9. | Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Paperback (224 pages) by Richard Rorty (Cambridge University Press)
In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable but it cannot advance Liberalism's social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. Specifically, it is novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov who succeed in awakening us to the cruelty of particular social practices and individual attitudes. Thus, a truly liberal culture would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. Rorty uses a wide range of references--from philosophy to social theory to literary criticism--to elucidate his beliefs.- ISBN13: 9780521367813
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| 10. | 1980-1990: Solidarity [VHS]
VHS Tape featuring This Great Century (Central Park Media)
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