Committee for Social Self-defence KOR
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Committee for Social Self-defence KOR (Polish: Komitet Samoobrony Społecznej KOR) was a Polish
civil society
group that emerged under communist
rule. It was created in 1977 from the Workers' Defence Committee
(Komitet Obrony Robotników). It was one of the movements whose activities led to the creation of Solidarity. It was eventually disbanded and absorbed into Solidarity in 1981.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
civil society
Civil society
Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...
group that emerged under communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
rule. It was created in 1977 from the Workers' Defence Committee
Workers' Defence Committee
The Workers’ Defense Committee was a Polish civil society group that emerged under communist rule to give aid to prisoners & their families after the June 1976 protests & government crackdown...
(Komitet Obrony Robotników). It was one of the movements whose activities led to the creation of Solidarity. It was eventually disbanded and absorbed into Solidarity in 1981.