TY - BOOK ID - 137777661 TI - In search of lost meaning : the new Eastern Europe AU - Michnik, Adam. AU - Grudzińska-Gross, Irena. PY - 2011 SN - 1283278138 9786613278135 0520949471 9780520949478 9780520269231 0520269233 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social ethics. KW - Social ethics KW - Social change KW - Poland KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Europe, Central KW - Politics and government KW - activism. KW - anti semitism. KW - central europe. KW - cold war. KW - communism. KW - dissident. KW - eastern bloc. KW - eastern europe. KW - europe. KW - european union. KW - genocide. KW - guilt. KW - history. KW - holocaust. KW - jewish history. KW - lech walesa. KW - liberalism. KW - memoir. KW - modern history. KW - morality. KW - nonfiction. KW - poland. KW - polish jews. KW - polish literature. KW - political action. KW - political movements. KW - politics. KW - post cold war. KW - rebellion. KW - red scare. KW - russia. KW - social justice. KW - solidarity. KW - ussr. KW - war. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137777661 AB - In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik-one of Europe's leading dissidents-traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique, In Search of Lost Meaning shines a spotlight on the changes in Poland and the Eastern Bloc in the post-1989 years. Michnik asks what mistakes were made and what we can learn from climactic events in Poland's past, in its literature, and the histories of Central and Eastern Europe. He calls attention to pivotal moments in which central figures like Lech Walesa and political movements like Solidarity came into being, how these movements attempted to uproot the past, and how subsequent events have ultimately challenged Poland's enduring ethical legacy of morality and liberalism. Reflecting on the most recent efforts to grapple with Poland's Jewish history and residual guilt, this profoundly important book throws light not only on recent events, but also on the thinking of one of their most important protagonists. ER -