Adam Michnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 283255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Michnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Michnik |
| SIGNATURE | MICHNIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prudential Financial (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Period After 1989”
This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the most crucial Soviet bloc dissidents about developments since the 1989 overthrow of communismin their part of the world. They agree that a “creeping coup d’état” is underway in which not only the government administrations of their countries have changed but also their systems of governance—and changed for the worse. “It is not,” they agree, “what the democratic opposition spent twenty…
The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
A brilliant meditation on politics, morality, and history from of the most courageous and controversial authors of our age Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative work, the man the Financial Time…
When Socrates Became Pericles
This essay is a memorial tribute from one member of the Common Knowledge editorial board to another. Adam Michnik, a cofounder of the first dissident organization in East-Central Europe, writes about the details and the symbolic importance of his first meeting, in 1978 on Mt. Snĕžka, with Václav Havel, coorganizer of Charter 77. From his insider's perspective, the author retells the history of dissent in communist Europe from that time until the …
In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe
In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik—one of Europe’s leading dissidents—traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique, In Search of Lost Meaning shines a spotlight on the changes in Poland and the Eastern Bloc in the post-1989 years. Michnik asks what mistakes were made and wh…
The Prince and the Pauper
This memorial to Leszek Kołakowski by perhaps his most famous student-a cofounder of the Solidarity movement-treats Kołakowski's life story only in passing. Not a conventional eulogy, the essay runs extensively through several of the arguments Kołakowski made over the years that taught the Polish "Generation of `68" how best to undo oppression and why they should do so. Emphasis falls on the difficulty, unpredictability, and unclassifiable featur…
The Trouble with History: Tradition: Imprisonment or Liberation
The Period After 1989
This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the crucial figures in the world of Soviet bloc dissidents about developments in their part of the world since the overthrow of communism there in 1989. They agree that a "creeping coup d'état" is underway, in which not only the government administrations of their countries have changed, but also their systems of governance-for the worse. "It is not," they agree, "what the democratic oppo…
Katyn » ou le film du massacre des Polonais par les Soviétiques
The Ultras of moral revolution
An Uncaptive Mind
This brief article is a discussion of the life and work of Czeslaw Milosz, a recently deceased, well-known Polish poet and dissident political figure. The author discusses his legacy and significance for the Polish generation of dissidents, as well as his personal encounter with the great poet
Miłosz Has Gone
What Europe Means for Poland
Poland, whose citizens always considered themselves European, for more than a decade has been free to decide her own fate. Just like other European countries, we recognize the freedom of the individual, democracy, private property and tolerance as the fundamentals of civilization. Also, like the rest of Europe, we are struggling with the problems of unemployment, corruption, increasing economic inequality, and populism. We need a united and safe …
Mantra
Research Article| August 01 2002 Mantra: Rather Than Discourse Adam Michnik Adam Michnik Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 516–525. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-516 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Adam Michnik; Mantra: Rather Than Discourse. Common Knowledge 1 August 2002; 8 (3): 516–525. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
El horror de Jedwabne
El horror de Jedwabne
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism Adam Michnik (bio) What drives history? Individual actions or impersonal natural forces? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: Most [historians who live in democratic ages] attribute hardly any influence to the individual over the destiny of the race, or to citizens over the fate of a people; but, on the other hand, they assign great general causes to all petty incidents. . . . M. de Lafay…
Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
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,…
Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
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, …
The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue
The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue Adam Michnik (bio) and Jay Rosen (bio) Jay Rosen: You say in one of your recent essays that democracy is not identical to freedom. If this is so, it would seem that a democratic press is not the same thing as a free press. True? Adam Michnik: I think that our journalistic profession, like any other profession, can be a craft, and that it can also be a work of art. The great majority of writers produce crime or …
Pologne et Ukraine: Un nouveau dialogue
Adam Michnik, Pologne et Ukraine: un nouveau dialogue. L'article analyse les rapports entre Pologne et Ukraine, lesquels sont pensés différemment selon qu'il s'agit d'une Pologne multiethnique ou monoethnique. La mémoire collective des deux peuples est divisée, douloureuse, et cherche à censurer des épisodes dramatiques comme la répression anti-ukrainienne dans la Pologne de l'immédiat avant-guerre
Market, religion and nationalism: Fundamentalisms in the new European order
Stefan Kieniewicz (1907-1992)
Overcoming the Past
I would like your very different biographies and your experiences with the European Left to encounter each other as it were in a discussion on Germany, on ‘overcoming the past’, on the legacy of socialism, on Europe and the lack of synchrony between Germany and Poland. The
The Church and the Left
Journal Article The Church and the Left, by Adam Michnik. Translated by David Ost. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, xvii + 301 pp. $24.95 Get access Gary Mann Gary Mann Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 2, Summer 1994, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711866 Published: 01 July 1994
The Church and the Left
Writing in New Republic, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz said of Adam Michnik, Before his unbending will, which pushes him to pay with his own person every time he encounters injustice. I feel what probably was felt by an average Hindu confronted by the devotion of Gandhi: admiration mixed with incredulity and hope. . . . Michnik is one of those who bring honor to the last two decades of the twentieth Years in advance of the collapse of communism i…
Confronting the Past: Justice or Revenge
Confronting the PastJustice or Revenge? Adam Michnik (bio) and Václav Havel (bio) Michnik: More than two years have passed since the "Velvet Revolution" in that famous year of 1989, when communism in our countries collapsed during the bicentennial of the French Revolution. I can remember meeting you at your residence during my visit to Prague in the summer of 1989. I told you then that you would become president. Tell me, in your opinion, has com…
Letters From Prison and Other Essays
Among the voices that speak to us from Poland today, the most important may be that of Adam Michnik. Michnik now sits in a jail belonging to the totalitarian regime, yet his first concern--and herein lies one of the keys to his thinking, and one should add, to his character--is with the quality of his own conduct, which, together with teh conduct of other victims of the present situation, will, he is sure, one day set the tone for whatever politi…
Confronting the Past: Justice or Revenge
Confronting the PastJustice or Revenge? Adam Michnik (bio) and Václav Havel (bio) Michnik: More than two years have passed since the "Velvet Revolution" in that famous year of 1989, when communism in our countries collapsed during the bicentennial of the French Revolution. I can remember meeting you at your residence during my visit to Prague in the summer of 1989. I told you then that you would become president. Tell me, in your opinion, has com…
The Church and the Left
Writing in New Republic, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz said of Adam Michnik, Before his unbending will, which pushes him to pay with his own person every time he encounters injustice. I feel what probably was felt by an average Hindu confronted by the devotion of Gandhi: admiration mixed with incredulity and hope. . . . Michnik is one of those who bring honor to the last two decades of the twentieth Years in advance of the collapse of communism i…
What We Want to Do and What We Can Do
So far, none of the analyses of the historical roots of the present events seems satisfactory. I think that it is necessary to go further back, to the year 1944, at a time when Poland, which until then found itself squeezed between Germans and Russians, saw imposed upon it a way of life still with us today. Let us review what happened in June of 1944. Mikolajczyk, the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in exile in London, the uncontested lea…
The Ultras of moral revolution
What Europe Means for Poland
Poland, whose citizens always considered themselves European, for more than a decade has been free to decide her own fate. Just like other European countries, we recognize the freedom of the individual, democracy, private property and tolerance as the fundamentals of civilization. Also, like the rest of Europe, we are struggling with the problems of unemployment, corruption, increasing economic inequality, and populism. We need a united and safe …
Mantra
Research Article| August 01 2002 Mantra: Rather Than Discourse Adam Michnik Adam Michnik Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 516–525. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-516 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Adam Michnik; Mantra: Rather Than Discourse. Common Knowledge 1 August 2002; 8 (3): 516–525. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
The Prince and the Pauper
This memorial to Leszek Kołakowski by perhaps his most famous student-a cofounder of the Solidarity movement-treats Kołakowski's life story only in passing. Not a conventional eulogy, the essay runs extensively through several of the arguments Kołakowski made over the years that taught the Polish "Generation of `68" how best to undo oppression and why they should do so. Emphasis falls on the difficulty, unpredictability, and unclassifiable featur…
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism Adam Michnik (bio) What drives history? Individual actions or impersonal natural forces? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: Most [historians who live in democratic ages] attribute hardly any influence to the individual over the destiny of the race, or to citizens over the fate of a people; but, on the other hand, they assign great general causes to all petty incidents. . . . M. de Lafay…
The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue
The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue Adam Michnik (bio) and Jay Rosen (bio) Jay Rosen: You say in one of your recent essays that democracy is not identical to freedom. If this is so, it would seem that a democratic press is not the same thing as a free press. True? Adam Michnik: I think that our journalistic profession, like any other profession, can be a craft, and that it can also be a work of art. The great majority of writers produce crime or …
Market, religion and nationalism: Fundamentalisms in the new European order
What We Want to Do and What We Can Do
So far, none of the analyses of the historical roots of the present events seems satisfactory. I think that it is necessary to go further back, to the year 1944, at a time when Poland, which until then found itself squeezed between Germans and Russians, saw imposed upon it a way of life still with us today. Let us review what happened in June of 1944. Mikolajczyk, the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in exile in London, the uncontested lea…
We are all Hostages
This war was not declared. During one Saturday night in December, officials of the security system pounded at our homes, broke down the doors with crowbars, beat us, sprayed us with tear gas, handcuffed us and threw us in prisons. We were the first prisoners in the war of the Communist establishment against its own population. This night action was General Jaruzelski's first successful battle. This is how the decision of the 9th Congress of the P…
Penser la Pologne. Morale et politique de la Résistance
Letters From Prison and Other Essays
Among the voices that speak to us from Poland today, the most important may be that of Adam Michnik. Michnik now sits in a jail belonging to the totalitarian regime, yet his first concern--and herein lies one of the keys to his thinking, and one should add, to his character--is with the quality of his own conduct, which, together with teh conduct of other victims of the present situation, will, he is sure, one day set the tone for whatever politi…
Letters From Prison and Other Essays
Croyons au bon sens
The Church and the Left
Writing in New Republic, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz said of Adam Michnik, Before his unbending will, which pushes him to pay with his own person every time he encounters injustice. I feel what probably was felt by an average Hindu confronted by the devotion of Gandhi: admiration mixed with incredulity and hope. . . . Michnik is one of those who bring honor to the last two decades of the twentieth Years in advance of the collapse of communism i…
Confronting the Past: Justice or Revenge
Confronting the PastJustice or Revenge? Adam Michnik (bio) and Václav Havel (bio) Michnik: More than two years have passed since the "Velvet Revolution" in that famous year of 1989, when communism in our countries collapsed during the bicentennial of the French Revolution. I can remember meeting you at your residence during my visit to Prague in the summer of 1989. I told you then that you would become president. Tell me, in your opinion, has com…
Stefan Kieniewicz (1907-1992)
Overcoming the Past
I would like your very different biographies and your experiences with the European Left to encounter each other as it were in a discussion on Germany, on ‘overcoming the past’, on the legacy of socialism, on Europe and the lack of synchrony between Germany and Poland. The
The Church and the Left
Journal Article The Church and the Left, by Adam Michnik. Translated by David Ost. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, xvii + 301 pp. $24.95 Get access Gary Mann Gary Mann Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 2, Summer 1994, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711866 Published: 01 July 1994
Pologne et Ukraine: Un nouveau dialogue
Adam Michnik, Pologne et Ukraine: un nouveau dialogue. L'article analyse les rapports entre Pologne et Ukraine, lesquels sont pensés différemment selon qu'il s'agit d'une Pologne multiethnique ou monoethnique. La mémoire collective des deux peuples est divisée, douloureuse, et cherche à censurer des épisodes dramatiques comme la répression anti-ukrainienne dans la Pologne de l'immédiat avant-guerre
Market, religion and nationalism: Fundamentalisms in the new European order
The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue
The Media and Democracy: A Dialogue Adam Michnik (bio) and Jay Rosen (bio) Jay Rosen: You say in one of your recent essays that democracy is not identical to freedom. If this is so, it would seem that a democratic press is not the same thing as a free press. True? Adam Michnik: I think that our journalistic profession, like any other profession, can be a craft, and that it can also be a work of art. The great majority of writers produce crime or …
Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
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, …
Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives
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,…
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism Adam Michnik (bio) What drives history? Individual actions or impersonal natural forces? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: Most [historians who live in democratic ages] attribute hardly any influence to the individual over the destiny of the race, or to citizens over the fate of a people; but, on the other hand, they assign great general causes to all petty incidents. . . . M. de Lafay…
El horror de Jedwabne
El horror de Jedwabne
Mantra
Research Article| August 01 2002 Mantra: Rather Than Discourse Adam Michnik Adam Michnik Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 516–525. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-516 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Adam Michnik; Mantra: Rather Than Discourse. Common Knowledge 1 August 2002; 8 (3): 516–525. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
What Europe Means for Poland
Poland, whose citizens always considered themselves European, for more than a decade has been free to decide her own fate. Just like other European countries, we recognize the freedom of the individual, democracy, private property and tolerance as the fundamentals of civilization. Also, like the rest of Europe, we are struggling with the problems of unemployment, corruption, increasing economic inequality, and populism. We need a united and safe …
An Uncaptive Mind
This brief article is a discussion of the life and work of Czeslaw Milosz, a recently deceased, well-known Polish poet and dissident political figure. The author discusses his legacy and significance for the Polish generation of dissidents, as well as his personal encounter with the great poet
Miłosz Has Gone
The Ultras of moral revolution
The Trouble with History: Tradition: Imprisonment or Liberation
The Period After 1989
This guest column amounts to a conversation between two of the crucial figures in the world of Soviet bloc dissidents about developments in their part of the world since the overthrow of communism there in 1989. They agree that a "creeping coup d'état" is underway, in which not only the government administrations of their countries have changed, but also their systems of governance-for the worse. "It is not," they agree, "what the democratic oppo…
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