Adam Michnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.
Adam Michnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.
Reared in a family of involved communists, Michnik became an antagonist of Poland’s communist regime at the grow old of the party’s anti-Jewish purges. He was imprisoned after the 1968 March Events and once more after the imposition of martial appear in in 1981. He has been called “one of Poland’s most famous political prisoners”.
Michnik played a crucial role during the Polish Round Table Talks, as a consequences of which the communists definitely to call elections in 1989, which were won by Solidarity. Though he has withdrawn from supple politics, he has “maintained an influential voice through journalism”. He has expected many awards and honors, including the Legion of Honour and European of the Year. He is moreover one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.