- Nagroda Literacka Nike 2014 · Winner
Riding History to Death: Confessions of a Battered Rider
Zajeździmy kobyłę historii. Wyznania poobijanego jeźdźca
Karol Modzelewski (born 1937)
Translated by Frank L. Vigoda
English editions
In EnglishRiding History to Death: Confessions of a Battered Rider
Rowman & Littlefield · United States · 2021 · Hardcover
* Affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate and a Bookshop.org affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. The price stays the same for you.
A distinguished medievalist and one of the best-known opponents of the communist regime tells the story of his family and his own life against Poland's political history from the 1940s to today. He describes the attitudes of the opposition in the 1960s, in the Solidarity years and during the transition, and shows how many ideas and paths there were towards democracy, from attempts to reform the socialist system to abandoning it altogether.
AI-generated summary
About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 436 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Poland, 1940s to the 2000s
- First published
- 2013 by Wydawnictwo Iskry
- Author's age
- 76 when first published
- ISBN
9788324403356 (original)
9781538141618 (Rowman & Littlefield, United States)
- More
- Wikidata