Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism. But the Mazowiecki government faced a nearly impossible task: building democratic political institutions while resuscitating the country’s torpid economy.
柏林墙倒塌及捷克斯洛伐克天鹅绒革命爆发前5个月，波兰通过谈判走出了极权主义。但马佐维耶茨基政府面临着一项几乎不可能完成的任务：建立民主的政治制度，并重振国家毫无生气的经济。