Polish journalist and intellectual Adam Michnik has been honored with the Gratias Agit Award by the Czech foreign ministry ...

Michnik, a leading intellectual of the Cold War era and longtime critic of Russian domination of Eastern Europe, is now, at age 75, the editor in chief of the liberal Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

Michnik was a central figure in Poland’s struggle against communist rule, said Michael Kennedy, professor of sociology and international studies, who introduced the lecture. While spending six years ...

IN MARCH 1968, when he was twenty-one years old, Adam Michnik had a copy of Forefather’s Eve, a play by the nineteenth-century poet Adam Mickiewicz, on his bedside table.He wound up reading it ...

Adam Michnik, The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 208 pp., $25.00. WHAT HAPPENS to revolutionaries after the revolution?

Adam Michnik is editor-in-chief of Poland's leading daily and its most prominent former dissident. In a SPIEGEL interview, he talks about the threat of authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe, the ...

Adam Michnik, a leader of the anti-Communist opposition in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s, is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where this piece originally appeared.

Adam Michnik is known for his role in Poland's Solidarity pro-democracy movement; was imprisoned in 1980s for efforts to end country's communist rule. Skip to main content. Toggle Menu.

In The Wall Street Journal, Matthew Kaminski interviews Polish intellectual Adam Michnik on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mr. Michnik says that the 20 years since Communism ...

Adam Michnik. On the C-SPAN Networks: Adam Michnik is an Editor-in-Chief for the Gazeta Wyborcza with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1993 Forum as an Award ...

Former Polish dissident Adam Michnik likens Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine to Adolf Hitler's annexation of the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia in 1938.

With his blunt rhetoric, spirited hand gestures and puffs off an electronic cigarette, Adam Michnik gave over 50 people a taste of his rebellious nature at a lecture Monday in the Joukowsky Forum at ...