Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--The Communist Party yesterday opened the possibility of radical change in the Soviet Union's structure by offering new powers to the republics and a possible rewrite of the agreement that united them...
...Solidarity-led coalition has alarmed the Soviet Union and would be the first non-communist government in the East bloc since the late 1940s...
Solidarity Sen. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Walesa's envoy to coalition talks, said the independent trade union movement would not abandon its efforts to form a government. Kaczynski said Kiszczak was trying to "make it...very difficult, if not impossible" for Solidarity to form the government, but that he did not think that the proposal of Malinowski for prime minister would succeed...
...Communist Party responded with alarm when Walesa proposed forming the government. On Friday, the Soviet Union joined in with expressions of concern, warning against possible harm to the stability of Poland and Europe...
...demythifying process, argues Nina Tumarkin, professor of history at Wellesley College and author of The Cult of Lenin, is necessary if the Soviet Union is to right itself. "Lenin is being brought down to earth to make way for the new myths of perestroika," she says. If Gorbachev's political reform is more than a myth and the government is able to find its legitimacy in increased democracy, it might not need Lenin anymore...