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    The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Communist Poland, from 6 February to 5 April 1989. The government initiated talks with the banned trade...
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    government and Solidarity in Poland in 1989; see: Polish Round Table Agreement. Hence, the term "round table" is also used figuratively to refer to a peaceful...
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  • parliamentary elections could be held Polish Round Table Agreement, in Warsaw, Poland, February 6 – April 4, 1989 Round Table Conferences (India), organized...
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  • democracy. The Polish Round Table Talks, February-April 1989 The Hungarian Round Table Talks, March-September 1989 The Czechoslovak Round Table Talks, November-December...
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    of the USSR, while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956. The phrase was originally translated...
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    was forced to negotiate with the opposition and adhere to the Polish Round Table Agreement, which permitted free democratic elections. The elections on...
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    following the Polish Round Table Agreement talks from February to April between the government and the Solidarity trade union. The Polish Solidarity Union...
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    to negotiate with the opposition, which opened way for the 1989 Round Table Agreement. The second, much bigger wave of strikes (August 1988) surprised...
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  • Beata Chmiel (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    participation in the 1989 Polish Round Table Agreement that negotiated the transition from the Polish People's Republic to the Third Polish Republic. Chmiel became...
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  • Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1989) (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights Solidarity Polish Round Table Agreement Polish government-in-exile Kostov, Chris (14 May 2015). The Communist...
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    Bronisław Geremek (category Polish Round Table Talks participants)
    He was an opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. He served as Member of Parliament (1991–2001)...
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    the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Communist Party, the Polish Workers' Party, the Romanian Communist Party, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia...
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    that the territory of the union republic cannot be changed without its agreement. Article 81 of the Constitution stated that "the sovereign rights of Union...
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  • appear in the oldest Polish chronicle, Gesta principum Polonorum from the early 12th century. After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile...
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  • to the trial and death sentence to videotape it in full; only the last round of shots was filmed. In 2014, retired Captain Boeru told a reporter for...
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    Gazeta Wyborcza (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    Warsaw, Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the trade union "Solidarity" in the election...
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    Revolutions of 1989 (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    Traditionally a ceremonial office, the presidency was given more powers (Polish Round Table Agreement). On 7 July 1989, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev implicitly...
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    power to be initiated via a power-sharing agreement similar to that of the 1989 Polish Round Table Agreement and Contract Sejm in Poland. Using the March...
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    the Czech endonym Češi – via its Polish orthography The name "Czech" derives from the Czech endonym Češi via Polish, from the archaic Czech Čechové, originally...
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  • with the government. The 1989 round table talks between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition produced an agreement for the 1989 legislative elections...
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    round, Wałęsa won almost 75% of voters, being the largest landslide electoral victory in Polish political history. Following the Polish Round Table Agreement...
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    Contract Sejm (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    to an agreement reached by the Polish United Workers' Party and the Solidarność ("solidarity") movement during the Polish Round Table Agreement. The final...
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    Oder-Neisse line was divided into four occupation zones (as per the Potsdam Agreement), each one controlled by one of the four occupying Allied powers: the...
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    Stanisław Komorowski (category 20th-century Polish physicists)
    was one of the new wave of Polish diplomats who reestablished Polish diplomatic services after the Polish Round Table Agreement. Komorowski was born in Warsaw...
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    Olympics 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Gulf War Fall Singing Revolution Polish Round Table Agreement Revolutions of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall January Events Barricades...
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    Thick line (category Polish political phrases)
    crimes committed by the communist regime of pre-1989 Poland. Polish Round Table Agreement Lustration in Poland Vergangenheitsbewältigung Gerald J. Beyer...
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    be next if radical changes were not made. He then signed the Helsinki Agreement which then forced conformity to Western European human rights standards...
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    which came in the form of the Soviet Union's offer of a lucrative trade agreement lasting for five years, a grant amounting to the approximate equivalent...
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    Olympics 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Gulf War Fall Singing Revolution Polish Round Table Agreement Revolutions of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall January Events Barricades...
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    1989 (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    status, and agreeing to hold democratic elections on June 4 (Polish Round Table Agreement), which initiates the 1989 revolution and the overthrow of communism...
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