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Cuvant despre Jacek Kuron
On Jacek Kuron

Author(s): Adam Michnik
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Jacek Kuron; Solidarity; Communist regime in Poland; anti-Communist struggle in Poland.

Summary/Abstract: A moving evocation of Jacek Kuron, one of the prominent intellectuals who opposed in the 60s the Polish Communist dictatorship, a founder of the Committee for Supporting the Workers (KOR) that marked the beginning of the anti-Communist actions at a national level; a politician of the Third Republic for whom dialogue, compromise, concrete measures and reforms were the key words. At the same time, a concise picture of the troubled decades of the second half of the 20th century Polish history.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 124-128
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian