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 participant in the Round Table negotiations for the opposition and a mathematician, Jan Litynski (b. 1946) has served as a Deputy in the Sejm since 1989. Litynski was expelled from the University of Warsaw and imprisoned in 1968 for his participation in student demonstrations. Nine years later he became a founding member of the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR) and edited Biuletyn Informacyjny and Robotnik. As a result of his membership in Solidarity, he was imprisoned from 1981 to 1983 and forced into hiding from 1983 to 1986. Since 1989, Litynski has represented the Civic Parliamentary Club, Democratic Union, and Freedom Union in the Sejm; since 1994, he has been a member of the National Council for Freedom.

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