From his perch at Oxford, where he became a fellow at All Souls College, he continued to tell inconvenient truths and remained an intellectual and moral presence in his country throughout its struggles against the oppressive regime, a series of workers’ uprisings, the rise of the Solidarity movement, and the final collapse of the regime in 1989. Kolakowski came back to Poland a number of times in his last years, although he never settled there again.