Nobel Peace Prize to Lech Wałęsa in 1983

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The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Lech Wałęsa in 1983 honored his leadership of the Polish Solidarity movement and its nonviolent struggle for workers’ rights and political reform under communist rule.

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instanceOf Nobel Peace Prize award
peace prize
associatedMovement Solidarity NERFINISHED
associatedOrganization NSZZ Solidarność NERFINISHED
associatedPeriod Cold War NERFINISHED
associatedPlace Gdańsk Shipyard NERFINISHED
associatedWith Polish opposition movement
awardedBy Norwegian Nobel Committee NERFINISHED
awardedFor courageous and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in Poland
awardRecipient Lech Wałęsa NERFINISHED
awardYear 1983
category individual laureate prize
chronologicalPosition Nobel Peace Prize 1983 NERFINISHED
countryContext Poland NERFINISHED
countryOfAwarding Norway NERFINISHED
field peace
follows Nobel Peace Prize to Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles in 1982
hasLaureateRole human rights defender
trade union leader
honors human rights advocacy
nonviolent resistance
trade union activism
impact international recognition of Solidarity
strengthening of global support for Polish opposition
languageOfOfficialCitation Norwegian
locationOfAwarding Oslo NERFINISHED
partOf Nobel Peace Prize NERFINISHED
politicalContext communist rule in Poland
precedes Nobel Peace Prize to Desmond Tutu in 1984
reasonForAward leadership of the Solidarity movement
nonviolent struggle for political reform
nonviolent struggle for workers’ rights
relatedEvent Polish Solidarity movement NERFINISHED
relatedIdeology anti-communism
relatedTheme democratization in Eastern Europe
workers’ rights
relatedTo martial law in Poland
symbolizes peaceful struggle against authoritarianism
workers’ self-organization
timeContext early 1980s

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Solidarność recognizedBy Nobel Peace Prize to Lech Wałęsa in 1983