Adam Michnik, lifelong human rights activist and editor-in-chief of Poland's first independent daily newspaper, described how post-communist nations have "a problem with history" in a lecture ...

CRACOW — Adam Michnik was one of the great wordsmiths of the revolution of conscience that began to form in mid-1970s Poland, that was fully ignited by John Paul II in June 1979, and that triumphed in ...

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz tried for many years to make a documentary about Adam Michnik, but Michnik consistently discouraged her from doing so. In the end, he agreed, but made the condition that 'it ...

Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency has no apparent silver lining for the European Union, Ukraine, or the Middle East. While it is always possible that a black swan event will change today’s ...

Bucharest, Oct 16 /Agerpres/ - Mayor of Tulcea, Stefan Ilie awarded on Thursday the key of the city to historian Adam Michnik, one of the emblematic figures of Poland's anti-communist dissident ...

While Vladimir Putin needs a permanent state of war to keep the Russian people under his thumb, Donald Trump needs conflicts with the rest of the world to create a pretext for his own abuse of power.

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 Recipient for Poland.

What happens to revolutionaries after the revolution? If the revolution fails, the answer is easy: they end up in exile, in prison or dead. But what if the uprising succeeds?