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Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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The Last Nail on the Coffin

The poles, even more than the germans and the rumanians, were not risking their lives to get the supposed blessings of liberal democracy. The final nail on the coffin was allowing a televised debate between solidarity leader lech valenza and one of the regime's leaders. And cotkan taces on what rizard legudko has expertly analyzed, that the actual members of the uncivil society were never punished.

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