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Adam Michnik's Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Edited by Irena Grudzinska Gross. New translations by Jane Cave. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxxii, 348 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This is an anthology o f selections o f A d a m Michnik's writings, interviews and speeches between 1986 and 1996. M i c h n i k is an intellectual, and in that capacity has b e e n part o f a rich legacy o f m e m b e r s o f the Polish intelligentsia who have b e e n active partisans in their country's politics and have used their role as part of . t h e articulate opposition to bring about change. The high point o f Michnik's in- tellectual-political life was in helping to establish the Workers' Defense Commit- tee (KOR) in 1976 which b r o u g h t about a union o f the intellectuals and the rank- and-file trade union m e m b e r s in order to stand up to the C o m m u n i s t regime in Poland. In 1981 K O R
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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