Marxism-Leninism

Reform and collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Eurasia and elsewhere (1979–1991)

Social resistance to the policies of Marxist–Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe accelerated in strength with the rise of the Solidarity, the first non-Marxist–Leninist controlled trade union in the Warsaw Pact that was formed in the People's Republic of Poland in 1980.