Adam Michnik: 4 books

Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative...

In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik—one of Europe’s leading dissidents—traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique,...

The first uncensored, English-language translation of a Polish dissident poet's brave act of witness in post-World-War-II Europe. The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry...

Deux enfants terribles de la politique racontent leurs parcours et leurs espoirs avec une honnêteté intellectuelle qui éclaire les cinquante dernières années. Comment ces deux acteurs atypiques de la vie publique, longtemps de chaque côté du rideau de fer, ont-ils vécu l'après-guerre,...