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Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
Adam Michnik
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Description for Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
Paperback. Through essays, articles, and interviews, this title presents the reader with the momentous changes in Poland and East-Central Europe. Sharing the author's intellectual journey through a tumultuous era, it focuses on the subjects important to him. Translator(s): Cave, Jane. Series: Society and Culture in East-Central Europe S. Num Pages: 346 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVP; BG; HBJD; JPA; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as "Letters from Prison". Beginning where that volume ended, "Letters from Freedom" finds Michnik briefly in prison at the height of the 'cold civil war' between authorities and citizens in Poland, then released. Through his continuing essays, articles, and interviews, the reader can follow all the momentous changes of the last decade in Poland and East-Central Europe. Some of ... Read more
A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as "Letters from Prison". Beginning where that volume ended, "Letters from Freedom" finds Michnik briefly in prison at the height of the 'cold civil war' between authorities and citizens in Poland, then released. Through his continuing essays, articles, and interviews, the reader can follow all the momentous changes of the last decade in Poland and East-Central Europe. Some of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press California
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Series
Society and Culture in East-Central Europe S.
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520217607
SKU
V9780520217607
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About Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik is the editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, which he helped to found in 1989. Many of his articles and essays have been translated into other languages, but except for the translation of a 1979 work, The Church and the Left (1992), this is the first collection of his writings to appear in English since Letters from Prison and Other ... Read more
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