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SUMMARY:The Role of Solidarity in the End of the Cold War in Europe: A Rou
 ndtable Discussion with Lech Walesa and GW Cold War Historians
LOCATION:Washington\, DC
DESCRIPTION:The Role of Solidarity in the End of the Cold War in Europe: A
  Roundtable Discussion with Lech Wałęsa and GW Cold War Historians (Washi
 ngton D.C.) LocationElliott School of International Affairs\n1957 E St NW
 ‚ 7th Floor\nWashington‚ DC 20052\n\nTimeline5:00 - 5:30pm Registration\n
 5:30 - 6:30pm Roundtable\n6:30 - 7:30pm ReceptionEvent DescriptionThe GW 
 community is invited to join us for a discussion with Nobel Peace Laureat
 e and former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa‚ along with GW Cold War hist
 orians Hope M. Harrison and James G. Hershberg‚ as they discuss the role 
 of Solidarity in the end of the Cold War in Europe.\n\nThis event caps Pr
 esident Wałęsa’s visit to GW and the Elliott School‚ and is sponsored by 
 the GW Cold War Group and the Institute for European‚ Russian and Eurasia
 n Studies.\n\nSpeakersLech Wałęsa is a former President of Poland‚ the 19
 83 Nobel Peace Prize laureate‚ and one of the most influential leaders in
  Eastern Europe’s democratic transition. Rising from his work as an elect
 rician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk‚ he led the 1980 strike that resul
 ted in the creation of Solidarity‚ the first independent trade union in t
 he Communist bloc. Despite years of surveillance‚ imprisonment‚ and polit
 ical repression‚ Wałęsa remained committed to nonviolent resistance and d
 emocratic reform. His leadership helped unify workers and citizens in the
  fight for greater political freedoms and human rights. As Solidarity gre
 w into a powerful social and political movement‚ it played a \n\nhttp://n
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