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Pacem in Terris Award (5) |
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| complete name: |
Lech Walesa Wałęsa |
| nobel prize: |
peace |
| award year: |
1983 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Peace Prize 1983 was awarded to Lech Walesa." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Lech |
| family name: |
Wałęsa |
| occupation: |
politician |
| occupation: |
electrician |
| occupation: |
economist |
| occupation: |
trade unionist |
| description: |
Lech Walesa Wałęsa is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. Wałęsa was an electrician by trade. Soon after beginning work at Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk Shipyard), he became a trade union activist, for which he was persecuted by the Communist authorities, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980 he was instrumental in political negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Gdańsk Agreement between striking workers and the government. He became a co-founder of the Solidarity trade union movement. After martial law was imposed in Poland and Solidarity was outlawed, Wałęsa was arrested again. Upon his release from custody he continued his activism and was prominent in the establishment of the 1989 Round Table Agreement that led to semi-free parliamentary elections in June 1989, and to a Solidarity-led government. In the Polish general election of 1990, Wałęsa successfully ran for the newly re-established office of President of Poland. He presided over Poland's transition from communism to a post-communist state, but his popularity waned and his role in Polish politics diminished after he narrowly lost the 1995 presidential election. As of 2016, Wałęsa continues to speak and lecture on history and politics in Poland and abroad. |
| pronunciation: |
(/ˌlɛx vɑːˈwɛnsɑː/); Polish: [ˈlɛx vaˈwɛɯ̃sa]) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Peace Prize 1983. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1983/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1943 |
| usual name: |
Lech Wałęsa |
