FamousWhy
USA
Famous People Famous Regions Famous Articles Famous Software FamousWhy Web Services Famous Forum Submit Content
|

Statistics:
Visits: 27
Votes: 0
Fame Riser
          
Fame Rank
N/A


On this page

Lech Walesa Biography
Lech Walesa Videos
Lech Walesa Movies
Lech Walesa Links
Useful Tabs
User reviews
Create a poll for Lech Walesa
Ask a Question about Lech Walesa
Post a Quote for Lech Walesa
Born on September 29
Famous People Born in Popowo Poland
Famous Libra Politicians
Famous Roman Catholic People
Famous Polish People
 

Lech Walesa Fan-Club

BECOME A FAMOUS FAN!

Lech Walesa has no Fans yet!

create pool

Famous People



Ask a Question about Lech Walesa

Famous Tags


politician   minister   leader   prime minister   government   statesman   socialist   chancellor   general   diplomat   secretary   leo   communist   nationalist   libra   aries   ambassador   soldier   campaign   founder   liberal   roman catholic   journalist   head of state   mayor   conservative   gemini   sagittarius   lawyer   1950   1943   governor   new york city   constitution   aquarius   taurus  

All Tags

Free facebook fans, followers, likes - SocialBirth.com

[edit biography]

Lech Walesa

 Q:   Ask a Question about Lech Walesa       
Lech Walesa Lech Walesa (born in 1947) is a Polish trade-union leader, founder of Solidarity in 1980, an organization, independent of the Communist Party, which forced substantial political and economic concessions from the Polish government 1980-1981 until being outlawed.

Short Biography:

In 1989 he negotiated an agreement with the Polish government that legalized Solidarity and set in place a new 'socialist pluralist' political structure. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.

Walesa, as an electrician at the Lenin shipyard at Gdansk, became a trade-union organizer. Here he founded the Solidarity (Solidamos'c) confederation of trade unions.

A series of strikes led by Walesa, a devout Catholic, drew wide public support. In December 1981 Solidarity was outlawed and Walesa arrested, following the imposition of martial law by the Polish leader Gen Jaruzelski. Walesa was released in 1982.

After leading a further series of strikes during 1988, he negotiated an agreement with the Jaruzelski government in April 1989 under the terms of which Solidarity once more became legal and a new, semi-pluralist "sodalist democracy" was established. The coalition government elected in September 1989 was dominated by Solidarity. Walesa was elected president of Poland in 1990.

Why is Lech Walesa famous?

Lech Walesa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist.

 
Lech Walesa Movies

Moonwalker
No photo available
A Force More Powerful
No photo available
Auschwitz: Silent Witness
No photo available
The Burning Wall
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Lech Walesa Filmography
 

Lech Walesa Videos
WaÅ‚ÃÆ...

irrelevant
0
broken


Tags: organizer, activist, confederation, coalition

[edit tags]


Category: Politicians  - ( Politicians Archive)

Date Added: 04 July '12


Add a link to this page on any related website, blog or forum using this code :