Letters From Prison and Other Essays

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List of contents

Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz 
Introduction by Jonathan Schell 
Letters from Prison 
Why You Are Not Signing... 
Why You Are Not Emigrating... 
The Polish War 
On Resistance 
A Letter to General Kiszczak 
About the Elections 
Letter from the Gdansk Prison, 1985 
Solidarity 
A Time of Hope 
Hope and Danger 
Darkness on the Horizon 
A Year Has Passed 
The Democratic Opposition
A New Evolutionism 
Some Remarks on the Opposition and the General
Situation in Poland 
The Prague Spring Ten Years Later 
A Lesson in Dignity 
Maggots and Angels 
Historical Essays 
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 
The Dispute over Organic Work 
1863: Poland in Russian Eyes 
Conversation in the Citadel 
Index

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: Adam Michnik, Michnik Adam, Michnik/Latynski
• Assisted by: Maya Latynski (Editor), Adam Michnik (Editor), Czeslaw Milosz (Editor), Jonathan Schell (Editor), Czeslaw Milosz (Foreword), Milosz Czeslaw (Foreword), Jonathan Schell (Introduction), Schell Jonathan (Introduction), Maya Latynski (Translation), Latynski Maya (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.1986
• EAN: 9780520061750
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06175-0
• No. of pages: 371
• Series: Society and Culture in East-Ce; Society and Culture in East-Central Europe; Society and Culture in East-Ce; Studies in Society and Culture in East-Central Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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