• Communism in Poland can trace its origins to the late 19th century: the Marxist First Proletariat party was founded in 1882. Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)...
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  • alone. On 21 October in Warsaw Gomułka's return to power was accomplished, giving rise to the era of national communism in Poland. Gomułka pledged to dismantle...
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    Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917...
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    Poland's Solidarity trade union won an overwhelming victory in partially free elections, leading to the peaceful fall of communism in Poland. Also in...
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    fast-eroding support of communism in Poland. Labour turmoil led to the formation of the independent trade union Solidarity (Solidarność) in September 1980, originally...
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    occupation of Poland between 1939 and 1945, called the Holocaust. Since the fall of communism in Poland, there has been a renewed interest in Jewish culture...
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  • of Communism is a David Naglieri documentary about the role Pope John Paul II played in the demise of the U.S.S.R., the end of Communism in Poland, and...
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    After the fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, members of a parliamentary commission determined that martial law had been imposed in clear violation of...
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  • that most Jews collaborated with the Soviet Union in importing communism into Poland, or that there was an exclusively Jewish conspiracy to do so. A...
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    became a major problem after the Revolutions of 1989, which collapsed communism in Poland, although the economy previously had high levels of hidden unemployment[citation...
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  • of communism in Poland. 9 May - National Victory and Freedom Day (Narodowe Święto Zwycięstwa i Wolności), established in 1945, disestablished in 2015...
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    Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains) in the south. Since the fall of communism many major companies have been established in Poland. The following list includes...
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    which was to take place in Poland thanks to EU funds, is treated as a partial compensation for the losses that Poland suffered in connection with the unilateral...
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  • Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern...
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    Milicja Obywatelska (category Communism in Poland)
    elite ZOMO squads. The MO continued to exist after the fall of communism in Poland in 1989 until it was transformed back into Policja on 10 May 1990....
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  • Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal...
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    its size and actions being exaggerated in propaganda in communist Poland. Since the fall of communism in Poland, the Armia Ludowa has been classified as...
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    Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains...
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    of Communism in Poland in 1989. In Brazil, the majority of Polish immigrants settled in Paraná State. Smaller, but significant numbers settled in the...
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    The anti-communist resistance in Poland, also referred to as the Polish anti-communist insurrection fought between 1944 and 1953, was an anti communist...
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    structures were meant to facilitate the eventual introduction of communism into Poland in the form of a Polish Soviet Republic. Given the precarious situation...
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  • from technological advances in the productive forces, representing the ultimate goal of the political ideology of communism. A communist society is characterized...
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    after the fall of communism in Poland facilitated research into his life by Polish historians. Witold Pilecki was born on 13 May 1901 in the town of Olonets...
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    fall of communism in Poland, in April 1990. Library collections were systematically cleansed, the majority of the books destroyed, some isolated in Party...
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  • Communism in 1989 may refer to: Revolutions of 1989 End of Communism in Bulgaria (1989) End of Communism in Hungary (1989) End of Communism in Poland...
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    Museum of Communism was a planned museum focusing on the communist period of Polish history, located in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The...
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    every Polish citizen had to be in possession of. After the fall of communism in Poland, internal passport booklets continued to be issued until 2001, when...
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  • continues to nominally uphold Communism, but has replaced Marxism-Leninism with the Juche idea. References to Communism were removed in the North Korean 1992...
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    Ekstraliga (speedway) (category Professional sports leagues in Poland)
    attendances for any sport in Poland. With the fall of communism in Poland in the 1990s and the resultant sharp increase in the value of the Złoty, the...
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  • the End of Communism in Europe (Boydell & Brewer, 2015). Penn, Shana (2005). Solidarity's Secret : The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland. University...
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