Letters From Prison and Other Essays

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About the author

Adam Michnik is a historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and the editor-in-chief of Poland's largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Summary

The author sits in a jail belonging to the totalitarian regime, yet his first concern. In this book, his essays are a guide to the origins of the revolution, and, more particularly, to its innovative practices.

Product details

• Authors: Michnik Adam, Michnik/Latynski, Adam Michnik
• Assisted by: Maya Latynski (Editor), Adam Michnik (Editor), Czeslaw Milosz (Editor), Jonathan Schell (Editor), Milosz Czeslaw (Foreword), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword), Schell Jonathan (Introduction), Jonathan Schell (Introduction), Latynski Maya (Translation), Maya Latynski (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.08.1986
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780520061750
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06175-0
• Pages: 371
• Series: Society and Culture in East-Ce > 2; Society and Culture in East-Central Europe; Society and Culture in East-Ce > 2; Studies in Society and Culture in East-Central Europe
• Subjects: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Poland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies