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

Aleksander Hall Former teacher and founder of the Young Poland Movement (1979), Aleksander Hall (b. 1953) participated in the Round Table negotiations as a representative of the opposition. In 1977, he received a degree in history from the University of Gdansk and became a coordinator of the Movement for the Defense of Human and Civil Rights. A member of the Regional Coordinating Commission for Solidarity from 1980 to 1981, he spent the following three years in hiding. He resumed involvement in the Solidarity movement in 1988 and became a member of the Citizens' Committee. Hall was a government minister responsible for cooperation with political organizations and associations from 1989 to 1990. Co-founder of the Democratic Union, he served as its Co-chairman from 1991 to 1992 and as one of its Deputies in the Sejm from 1991 to 1993. Hall was leader of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1997, when he co-founded the Peasant-Conservative Party. He is currently a Deputy to the Sejm associated with Solidarity Electoral Action.

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