COMMUNISM'S NEGOTIATED COLLAPSE:
THE POLISH ROUND TABLE TALKS OF 1989,
TEN YEARS LATER
A Conference at the University of Michigan, April 7-10, 1999

A member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) from 1959 to 1990, Stanislaw Ciosek (b. 1939) has held a variety of administrative posts. He was awarded a degree in oceanic studies from the College of Economics at Sopot in 1961 and served for the next fourteen years in the administration of the Union of Polish Students. From 1972 to 1985 Ciosek was a Deputy to the Sejm, and from 1975 to 1980 he was a regional First Secretary in the PZPR. He was on the PZPR's Central Committee from 1980 to 1981 and 1986 to 1990; from 1980 to 1985 he was a member of the Council of Ministers. In the years leading to the Round Table negotiations (1986-88), he was General Secretary of the PZPR's Central Committee and General Secretary of the National Council of the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth. From 1990 to 1996, Ciosek was Poland's Ambassador to Moscow.

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