The Missing Commemoration of 1980 — and 1989

by Eric Chenoweth (PDF Version) On the 30th anniversary of the 1989 "velvet revolutions" that resulted in the downfall of communist regimes in the Soviet bloc countries of Central and Eastern Europe, there was  little reflection on the most important social and political movement that helped to bring about this transformation of the region. That [...]

By |2022-11-23T15:33:42-05:00November 22nd, 2019|Committee in Support of Solidarity, Communism, Eric Chenoweth, Poland, Solidarity|

Answering Authoritarian Politics:

An Open Letter to an American Citizen About the 2016 Presidential Election September 16, 2016 by Eric Chenoweth                                                                                          PDF Version          […]

By |2022-11-23T15:33:43-05:00September 16th, 2016|Communism, Eastern Europe, Eric Chenoweth, Poland|

Jerzy Milewski, TW “Franciszek”

Poniżej zamieszczamy tekst wywiadu, jakiego w 1992 roku udzieliła Expressowi Wieczornemu Irena Lasota na temat zagranicznej działalności tajnego współpracownika Służby Bezpieczeństwa Jerzego Milewskiego (nieżyjącego obecnie), w 1992 r. szefa Biura Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego w kancelarii prezydenta Lecha Wałęsy (Red.) Źródło: TW “Franciszek” w Komitecie “S” w Brukseli. Za: Tajemnica Biura Brukselskiego. Z Ireną Lasotą rozmawia Aleksandra [...]

Dances with Dictators: General Jaruzelski’s Revisionists

The following article appeared in the journal World Affairs in its September-October 2014 issue. Twenty-five years ago, breakthrough elections were held in Poland that led, within three months, to the downfall of that country’s communist regime. The events helped to spark the Velvet Revolutions that spread, within the next six months, to Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, [...]

By |2016-06-14T15:24:46-04:00September 1st, 2014|Communism, Eastern Europe, Eric Chenoweth, Poland, Solidarity|

Common Elements of Successful Opposition to Communism in Eastern Europe

By Eric Chenoweth and Irena Lasota The following essay was written in 1999 as one of several Democracy Pamphlets, which were prepared as a series and translated into Spanish for distribution in Cuba for the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe’s Democracy for Cuba program. Other Democracy Pamphlets in English are available at IDEE’s original web [...]

By |2022-11-23T15:33:43-05:00July 9th, 1999|Centers for Pluralism, Communism, Eric Chenoweth, Irena Lasota|
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