Martin Ma- lia, in The New York Review of Books (Sept. 29, 1983), Subscription Service
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Among many Westerners, the December 1981 outlawing of the independent trade union Solidarity General Wojciech Jaruzelski's Soviet-backed regime raised fears that Poland will never be Poland. A look at Solidarity in the context of the nation's history, suggests Martin Malia, a Berkeley professor of Russian history, is more encouraging.
Poland has lived under...