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Lech Wałęsa, The Struggle and the Triumph, trans. by Franklin Philip and Helen Mahut (1992, reissued 2016), is an autobiography. The Book of Lech Wałęsa, trans. from Polish (1982), is a collection of essays. Mary Craig, The Crystal Spirit: Lech Wałęsa and His Poland (1986; also published as Lech Wałęsa and His Poland, 1987), places Wałęsa in the context of his generation’s history. Other studies that contextualize Wałęsa include Barbara Hicks, Environmental Politics in Poland: A Social Movement Between Regime and Opposition (1996); and Jarosław Kurski, Lech Wałęsa: Democrat or Dictator? (1993, reissued 2018).
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| Modified link of Web site: International Bar Association - Paris 2023 - An interview with Lech Walesa. | Nov 04, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard Kennedy School - From the Archives: the fox and the pope lessons from former Polish president Lech Walesa. | Dec 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - CLASSIC LNL: Lech Walesa. | Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Review of the Red Cross - Interview with Lech Walesa (PDF). | Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: George W. Bush Presidential Center - Lech Walesa: Overcoming Fear. | Jul 19, 2025 | ||
| Article revised. | May 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Bar Association - Paris 2023 - An interview with Lech Walesa. | Apr 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Lech Walesa Is Fearful Where Democracy Is Headed In Poland. | Mar 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Middle Permian crinoids (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from Cerros Los Monos, Caborca, Sonora, Mexico and paleogeographic considerations (PDF). | Mar 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - Amanpour - Former Poland President Lech Walesa. | Nov 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Penn Today - Lech Wałęsa on the state of democracy. | Sep 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Congress.Gov - Lech Wałęsa. | Jul 17, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Commanding Heights - Lech Walesa. | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Marquette University - Lech Walesa. | Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wilson Center Digital Archive - Biography of Lech Walesa. | Jul 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Age of the Sage - Lech Walesa. | Dec 16, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | May 17, 2019 | ||
| Deleted photographs. | Jan 09, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Polish American Cultural Center - Biography of Lech Walesa. | Dec 19, 2016 | ||
| Added a description of Walesa's activities after leaving politics and of allegations that he had been an informant for the security services during the communist era in Poland. | Feb 18, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lech Walesa Institute - Biography of Lech Wałesa. | Mar 03, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of Achievement - Biography of Lech Walesa. | Mar 03, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: President.Pl - Biography of Lech Wałęsa. | Mar 03, 2013 | ||
| Video on Solidarity added. | Sep 11, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 27, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Nobel Prize - Biography of Lech Walesa. | Jul 15, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | May 01, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 16, 2000 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Apr 28, 1999 |
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