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Adam Michnik
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.
Eurozine Articles
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. [English version added] [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]
