LETTERS FROM FREEDOM: PostCold War Realities and Perspectives .
by Michnik, Adam; Irina Grudzinska Gross, editor
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- Condition
- Very good in illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 0520217608
- ISBN 13
- 9780520217607
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1998). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. This second book of letters by this Polish writer starts with Michnik briefly in prison at the height of the "cold civil war" between authorities and citizens in Poland, then released. "Through his continuing essays, articles, and interviews, the reader can follow all the momentous changes of the last decade in Poland and East-Central Europe. Some of the writings have appeared in English in various publications; most are translated here for the first time." Included are interviews] with Czeslaw Milosz, Vaclv Havel, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. A title in the Society and Culture in East-Central Europe series. Translated by Jane Cave. Foreword by Ken Jowitt. Photographs, guide to events and people, index. xxxiii, 348 pp.
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- Title
- LETTERS FROM FREEDOM: PostCold War Realities and Perspectives .
- Author
- Michnik, Adam; Irina Grudzinska Gross, editor
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in illustrated wrappers.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520217608
- ISBN 13
- 9780520217607
- Publisher
- University of California Press,
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA:
- Date Published
- (1998)
- Keywords
- literature in translation, essays, interviews,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: World;
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