Breaking the Barrier

Breaking the Barrier
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 504
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Book Synopsis Breaking the Barrier by : Lawrence Goodwyn

Download or read book Breaking the Barrier written by Lawrence Goodwyn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last year the world has been electrified as one Soviet bloc government after another has collapsed. But ten years before the events of the past year came the first successful challenge to the Leninist state--the shipworker's strike in Gdansk, which led to the first free trade union in the communist world. Here is a fascinating history of the Solidarity movement.


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