WalĘsa, Lech
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...military crackdown of 1981. He was released in Nov., 1982, and in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1987, he helped block Jaruzelskis reform initiatives by organizing a boycott of the government referendum, and in 1988 he led a series...