Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights

In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history – Poland''s Solidarity movement – Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland''s Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of i...