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...leading political dissident; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. The best known of his novels was Ashes and Diamonds (1948), a study of confusion and despair at World War IIs end. Andrzejewski was an insistent protester against censorship; in 1976 he helped found the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR), which was integrated into the now outlawed Solidarity union...
...based on any profound contribution by Walesa to education, science or world peace, but a reward for his role as so-called leader of Solidarity. Harvard does not seek to honor Walesa's unionism but-only his anticommunism and his dedication to the counterrevolutionary movement in Poland represented by KOR...
...ease the strain on the budget by raising prices. He was right. When he finally increased prices in 1976, there were major riots in Radom and at the Ursus tractor factory. The brutal repression of these riots led to the formation of the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), a precursor of Solidarity. The organization was the first significant link between the dissident intellectuals like Jacek Kuron and the workers who later founded Solidarity. Inspired by KOR activists, small independent?and illegal?labor unions cautiously began to form in various parts of the country. Lech Walesa joined such a unit...
Sept. 28: The dissident committee for social self-defense (KOR) announces its disbandment, saying it is no longer needed as a result of Solidarity's existence...
...course, that the August 1980 events and their consequences had stimulated a great interest in Polish affairs. I also knew that my individual biography might seem symbolic: after all, I was a participant in some of the most spectacular activities of Polish democratic opposition in the late seventies--KOR--Committee for the Defense of Workers--underground publishing, the "Flying University", etc. Moreover, right after August my case even became one of Solidarity's first victories. Due to pressure from the newly-formed union, I was triumphantly reinstated to my job at Poznan University. As such, I should have expected that...