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"Rebellion" is the multi-threaded, fascinating story about a rebellion that changed Poland. It begins when the authorities promised a better life after the bloody suppression of the strike in December 1970. The availability of goods increased, the world seemed closer. Yet rebellion had come.This book provides the reader for the first time with the full story of the Great Strike of August 1980, the center of which was located in the Gdansk Shipyard. The same slogans and demands, however, were made by protesters in Szczecin, Elblag, Kraków, Lódz, Wroclaw, Silesia and dozens of other places across Poland. The eyes of the world were on Gdansk, and the agreement signed in the light of the cameras, in which the communist authorities were forced to make concessions, was celebrated by Poles all over the country. From the very beginning, the strike demands were not only a fight for bread, but also a fight for the dignity of the worker. However, the most important thing was the creation of a new community. The authorities had to either yield or call for help from foreign troops and chose a compromise. Many days of negotiations with the strikers resulted in an agreement that started a new chapter in Polish history.

Rebellion: The Shipyard Strikes in Poland and the Birth of Solidarnosc in August 1980