Word: tadeusz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Communist Party voted to dissolve, then resurrected itself as the Social Democratic Party. Tadeusz Fiszbach, a popular party leader who quit in 1981 to protest martial law, said a neo-Communist group had "no credibility," and formed a breakaway organization called the Union of Social Democracy...
...turned itself into a political party -- the first true opposition in the Soviet bloc -- so it could contest all 100 seats in the new Senate and 161 of the seats in the lower chamber, the Sejm. In June Solidarity won all but one of the contested seats. In August, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, editor of Solidarity's weekly newspaper, was sworn in as the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Eastern Europe since Stalin had imposed his system there 40 years ago. Society -- led, with appropriate irony, by the workers whom Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto had exhorted to unite...