Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik was one of the leaders of Solidarity and the founding editor of Gazeta Wyborcza.
Adam Michnik was one of the leaders of Solidarity and the founding editor of Gazeta Wyborcza.
In invading, occupying, and finally annexing Crimea, Vladimir Putin pointed Russia’s guns at Ukraine and said: your territorial sovereignty or your life. So far, extortion has worked – and Putin knows… read more
The Prague Spring embodied the great illusion that it might be possible to outfox the Soviet Union and move painlessly from communism to democracy. This belief was naïve, but it also underpinned a nat… read more
The sudden death a few weeks ago of Bronislaw Geremek, a leader of Poland's anti-communist resistance and later its foreign minister, represents a loss for what is best in Polish national identity. As… read more
When Poland's Solidarity brought down the communist regime in 1989, it embraced the idea of a Poland for everyone rather than a state divided between omnipotent winners and oppressed losers. But today… read more
