In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnikone of Europe s leading dissidentstraces 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...