About the Book
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 political system follows the totalitarian debacle. His essays are the most valuable guide we have to the origins of the revolution, and, more particularly, to its innovative practices.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz
Introduction by Jonathan Schell
Letters from Prison
Why You Are Not Signing...
Why You Are Not Emigrating...
The Polish War
On Resistance
A Letter to General Kiszczak
About the Elections
Letter from the Gdansk Prison, 1985
Solidarity
A Time of Hope
Hope and Danger
Darkness on the Horizon
A Year Has Passed
The Democratic Opposition
A New Evolutionism
Some Remarks on the Opposition and the General
Situation in Poland
The Prague Spring Ten Years Later
A Lesson in Dignity
Maggots and Angels
Historical Essays
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
The Dispute over Organic Work
1863: Poland in Russian Eyes
Conversation in the Citadel
Index
