Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism In Poland
by Shana Penn /
2005 / English / PDF
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"This important book explores one of the most pivotal periods in
Polish history and deals with a topic nearly everyone else
overlooked. Shana Penn's study begins with a simple question I
wish I had thought more about myself: once the leadership of
Solidarity had been arrested during the 1981 military coup, who
kept the movement alive over the following months and years? The
answer will surprise you, as Penn delves into the lives of seven
Polish women activists who rose to the call, set about saving an
entire political movement, and in time turned themselves into
some of the most powerful women in Poland today."
"This important book explores one of the most pivotal periods in
Polish history and deals with a topic nearly everyone else
overlooked. Shana Penn's study begins with a simple question I
wish I had thought more about myself: once the leadership of
Solidarity had been arrested during the 1981 military coup, who
kept the movement alive over the following months and years? The
answer will surprise you, as Penn delves into the lives of seven
Polish women activists who rose to the call, set about saving an
entire political movement, and in time turned themselves into
some of the most powerful women in Poland today."
---Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and winner of the 1983
Nobel Peace Prize
---Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and winner of the 1983
Nobel Peace PrizeSolidarity's Secret
Solidarity's Secret is the first book to record the
crucial yet little-known role women played in the rise of an
independent press in Poland and in the fall of that country's
communist government.
is the first book to record the
crucial yet little-known role women played in the rise of an
independent press in Poland and in the fall of that country's
communist government.
Shana Penn pieces together a decade of interviews with the women
behind the Polish pro-democracy movement-women whose massive
contributions were obscured by the more public successes of their
male counterparts.
Shana Penn pieces together a decade of interviews with the women
behind the Polish pro-democracy movement-women whose massive
contributions were obscured by the more public successes of their
male counterparts.
Penn reveals the story of how these brave women ran Solidarity
and the main opposition newspaper,
Penn reveals the story of how these brave women ran Solidarity
and the main opposition newspaper,Tygodnik Mazowsze
Tygodnik Mazowsze,
while prominent men like Lech Walesa were underground or in jail
during the 1980s martial law years. The same women then went on
to play influential roles in post-communist Poland.
,
while prominent men like Lech Walesa were underground or in jail
during the 1980s martial law years. The same women then went on
to play influential roles in post-communist Poland.Solidarity's Secret
Solidarity's Secret gives us a richly detailed
story-within-a-story-unheard of not only in the West, but until
recently even within Poland itself-from one of the most important
eras in modern history.
gives us a richly detailed
story-within-a-story-unheard of not only in the West, but until
recently even within Poland itself-from one of the most important
eras in modern history.
