Adam Michnik, Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s largest daily newspaper, is a historian, essayist and political publicist, He was one of the leading organizers of the illegal, democratic opposition in Poland between 1968-1989, a founding member of the Komitet Obrony Robotnikow (Committee for the Defense of Workers) in 1976, and a prominent activist during the Solidarity movement in the 1980s. He participated in the Round Table Talks of 1989, and was later elected to Poland’s first non-communist parliament, where he served from 1989-1991. Michnik is the author of several books, including Letters from Prison and Other Essays (1987), The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post Cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998).

Please see below a selection of his articles that have appeared in English, as well as an interview and a review of his ‘Letters from Prison’.

IP GLOBAL: Annus Mirabilis, essay by Adam Michnik, Winter 2009

THE GUARDIAN: Solidarity under Strain, by Adam Michnik, 9 November 2009

WALL STREET JOURNAL: From Solidarity to Democracy, interview with A.Michnik by Matthew Kaminski, 6 November 2009

DER SPIEGEL: Cynicism Threatens to Destroy gains of 1989, by Adam Michnik, 23 October 2009

EUROZINE: Verteidigung der Freiheit/ In Defence of Freedom, by Adam Michnik, 30 April 2009
(abstract in English. Full article in German, in PDF version)

MAGAZINE-DEUTCHLAND: Defending Freedom, by Adam Michnik, 26 March 2009

NY TIMES: Waiting for Freedom, Messing it Up, by Adam Michnik, 25 March 2007

CENTRAL EUROPEAN REVIEW: A different sort of Dissidence, interview with A.Michnik by Joanna Rohozinska, 18 October 1999

NY TIMES: Poland’s Plucky Activist, by Michael T. Kaufmann, 26 April 1987

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: Polish Patriot – ‘Letters from Prison and Other Essays’ by A. Michnik, review by Maurice Friedberg, February 1987