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    The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Poland from 6 February to 5 April 1989. The government initiated talks with the banned trade union Solidarność...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    enactment of the April Novelization, as agreed upon following the Polish Round Table Agreement talks from February to April between the government and the Solidarity...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Alfred Miodowicz (category Polish Round Table Talks participants)
    the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions and took part in the Polish Round Table Agreement. Profile of Alfred Miodowicz "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej...
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  • Armed conflicts between Poland (including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Civitas Schinesghe ("Duchy of Poland")) and Russia (including the Soviet...
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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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  • presented in Vienna. In July, the 1989 Polish legislative election held in accord with the Polish Round Table Agreement resulted in the appointment on 24 August...
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    Bronisław Geremek (category Polish Round Table Talks participants)
    opposition activist in Communist Poland and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. He served as Member of Parliament (1991–2001), Minister of Foreign...
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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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    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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  • with the government. The 1989 round table talks between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition produced agreement for the 1989 legislative elections...
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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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    bases. In February 1989 the Polish People's Republic opened talks with opposition, known as the Polish Round Table Agreement, which allowed elections with...
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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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    embraced as part of a national consciousness. In western Belarus, under Polish control until World War II, Byelorussia became commonly used in the regions...
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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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    From 17 July to 2 August 1945, the victorious Allies reached the Potsdam Agreement on the fate of postwar Europe, calling for the division of defeated Germany...
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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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    example, Zaporozhian Cossacks called their hetmanate "Ukraine". Within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the name carried unofficial status for larger part...
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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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