Roots of Solidarity

In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "e;activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state."e; Laba had set himself the ambitious task of documenting the history of Poland's free trade union. Martial law w...