In this book he responds to his opponents, adamantly defending his choices and ideals. After 1989, he has remained loyal to his values: trust, truth, tolerance. As a dissident, he did not waver in defying the totalitarian system. Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Lionized and celebrated by many, attacked and besmirched by some, Adam Michnik is a major public intellectual, a passionately lucid interpreter of post-communist ideological and political debates, a moral (not moralistic) thinker, and a courageous polemicist. Jonathan Schell, author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger Yet another collection of brilliant essays by Adam Michnik, which shows again how an intellectual deeply engaged in politics can at the same time be a profound thinker. Combining personal reminiscence, deep historical learning and polemics in a style that is all his own, he widens his scope to examine issues that have afflicted not only Eastern Europe but the world since the fall of Communism: the rise of right-wing gutter politics, the impact of neo-liberal economics, the new temptations of authoritarianism even as freedom has won an historic victory. About the Book In this series of vibrant, far-reaching essays, the inimitable and indispensable Adam Michnik, leading activist and intellectual progenitor of the Solidarity movement, turns his attention to the post-Communist era.
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