Letters from freedom: post-cold war realities and perspectives

by Michnik, Adam

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Full title :Letters from freedom : post-cold war realities and perspectives / Adam Michnik ; edited by Irena Grudzińska Gross ; foreword by Ken Jowitt ; with new translations from the Polish by Jane Cave.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1998.

Notes

Translated from Polish.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 348 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520922495, 0520922492, 0585200491, 9780585200491
oclc:ocm44958235
LC Classification:DK4449
Dewey Decimal:947/.0009/049

List of illustrations -- Editor's note -- Foreword: In praise of the "ordinary" -- Part 1: Hopelessness and hope ; 1. Cold Civil War: Poland ten years after the founding of the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR) ; 2. Don Quixote and invective ; 3. Anti-authoritarian revolt: A conversation with Daniel Cohn-Bendit ; 4. The dilemma ; 5. Towards a civil society: Hopes for Polish democracy: Interview with Erica Blair (John Keane) -- Part 2: Notes from the revolution, 1989-1990 ; 6. A specter is haunting Europe ; 7. After the round table ; 8. Joy ... and the moment of reflection ; 9. Nothing will ever be the way it was ; 10. Your president, our prime minister ; 11. Farewell to the Brezhnev Doctrine ; 12. If the president of Poland ... ; 13. Poland's fate is being decided ; 14. What next in Russia? ; 15. Notes from the revolution ; 16. After the revolution ; 17. My vote against Walesa* -- Part 3: Speeches and conversations ; 18. Poland and the Jews ; 19. Poland and Germany ; 20. Three kinds of fundamentalism ; 21. One has to rise early in the morning: A conversation with Czeslaw *Milosz* ; 22. The strange epoch of post-communism: A conversation with Vaclav Havel ; 23. We can talk without h…

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History interviews Michnik, Adam Poland Poland -- Politics and government -- 19… Poland -- Politics and government -- 19… Politics and government Pologne -- Politique et gouvernement --… Pologne -- Politique et gouvernement --… Since 1980