WARSAW — Former Polish communist leader Edward Gierek, who was toppled in 1980 by a bloodless revolution that produced Solidarity, Eastern Europe’s first independent labor movement, died Sunday. He ...

WARSAW -- Former Polish communist leader Edward Gierek, who was toppled in 1980 during a bloodless revolution that produced Eastern Europe's first independent labor movement, died July 29. He was 88.

A story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical ...

Grazyna Ogrodowska and Leszek Furman’s unsubtitled Polish documentary is about the former first secretary of the Communist Party in Poland, who following his brief incarceration in the early 80s never ...