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is historian, publicist and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. During the eighties of the last century he was advisor to the trade union Solidarnosc. He has published widely in for instance Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El Pais, New York Review of Books, The Washington Post and he has written a number of books such as L'Eglise et la Gauche, Le dialogue polonais (1977), Letters from Prison (1985), La deuxième Révolution (1990) and Letters from Freedom (1998). Was awarded with the Erasmus prize 2001.
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The logic of accusation has no end
Adam Michnik and Andrei Plesu discuss "resistance through culture"
For Adam Michnik, resistance to communism took many forms: reproaching another for their lack of heroism is impossible. Talking to Andrei Plesu in Bucharest in February 2011, he called for an end to the logic of accusation and warned against instrumentalizing the quarrel with communism. [more]
Defending freedom
Reflections on 1989
The paradoxical effects of transition make it hard to see what was achieved in '89, writes Adam Michnik. "The workers, with whose help it was possible to win freedom, fell victim to that very freedom." In a "Europe without utopias", cynicism towards democratic values is the biggest danger. [more]
From '68 to '89
What is the meaning of '68 almost twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? In an East-West dialogue placing '68 in a European and global perspective, leading protagonists of events in eastern Europe converse with their western counterparts. [more]
Confessions of a converted dissident
Essay for the Erasmus Prize 2001
For Europeans behind the Iron Curtain, the idea of Europe was simply a rejection of the Communist project. This vision obviously contained an idealisation of both the practice of the European Union and of its theoretical foundations. [more]
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