41 photographs
inTurning points

Prayers after assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, Cracow
1981, Poland
Pope John Paul II in Warsaw's Old Town
1979, Poland
John Paul II leaving Warsaw
1979, Poland
Pope John Paul II at Jasna Góra
1979, Poland
Lech Walesa arriving for registration of Solidarity trade union, Warsaw
1980, Poland
Václav Havel, Czech dissident, later to become President
1987, Czechoslovakia
Pope John Paul II in Gdańsk. The crowd at the Zaspa housing estate
1987, Poland
Crowd of faithful during visit of Pope John Paul II
1979, Poland
End of strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk
1980, Poland
Listening to a Boris Yeltsin election campaign speech
1989, USSR
40th Anniversary of the GDR. Military parade in East Berlin
1989, East Germany
Preparations before the start of the First Solidarity Convention in Oliwa
1981, Poland
Boris Yeltsin during election rally, Moscow
1989, USSR
Boris Yeltsin, Moscow
1989, USSR
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Duma, Moscov
1989, USSR
Warsaw, Solidarity supporters, martial law
1982, Poland
Boris Yeltsin, Moscow
1989, USSR
Martial law, Poznań
1982, Poland
Lech Wałęsa during the strike in Lenin's Shipyard
1980, Poland
Supply of bread arrives for striking workers at Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk
1980, Poland
Lech Wałęsa, arriving at court for the registration of Solidarity
1980, Poland
XVII Communist Party Congress, Prague
1988, Czechoslovakia
Martial law, Warsaw
1982, Poland
Preparing for the arrival of the Pope in the south of the country
1979, Poland