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Book SynopsisThrough essays, articles, and interviews, this title presents the reader with the momentous changes in Poland and East-Central Europe. Sharing the author's intellectual journey through a tumultuous era, it focuses on the subjects important to him.
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
EDITOR'S NOTE
FOREWORD: IN PRAISE OF THE
"ORDINARY" by Ken Jowitt
PART 2: HOPELESSNESS AND HOPE
1 Cold Civil War: Poland Ten Years after the Founding of the Workers' Defense Committee (KOR)
2 Don Quixote and Invective
3 Anti-authoritarian Revolt: A Conversation with Daniel Cohn-Bendit
4 The Dilemma
5 Towards a Civil Society: Hopes for Polish Democracy:Interview with Erica Blair (John Keane)
PART 2: NOTES FROM THE REVOLUTION,1989-1990
6 A Specter Is Haunting Europe
7 After the Round Table
8 Joy ... and a Moment of Reflection
9 Nothing Will Ever Be the Way It Was
1O Your President, Our Prime Minister
11 Farewell to the Brezhnev Doctrine
12 If the President of Poland . . .
13 Poland's Fate Is Being Decided
14 What Next in Russia?
15 Notes from the Revolution
16 Ater the Revolution
17 My Vote against Walesa
PART 3: SPEECHES AND CONVERSATIONS
18 Poland and the Jews
19 Poland and Germanv
20 Three Kinds of Fundamentalism
21 One Has to Rise Early in the Morning: A Conversation with Czcslaw Milosz
22 The Strange Epoch of Post-Communism:A Conversation with Vaclav Havel
23 We Can Talk without Hatred:A Conversation with Wojcicch J Aruzelski
24 I Am a Polish Intellectual:Adam Michnik Talks to Adam Krzcmiriski and Wieslaw Wladyka, Editors of Polityka
25 The Velvet Restoration: A Summing-Up
POSTFACE: GRAY IS BEAUTIFUL: A LETTER TO IRA KATZNELSON
GUIDE TO EVENTS AND PEOPLE
INDEX
