The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland

Charting the life and writings of Wladyslaw Bienkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rule.

Autorentext

Bart omiej Kapica is an assistant professor at the Research Centre for Totalitarianism at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznä, in 2015. He was an assistant professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (from 2016 to 2018 under the NCN FUGA Fellowship) and a scholar at the Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, in Rome (2013). His research interests include Biographical studies, history of the communist movement in Poland, Polish political history and intellectual history.

Klappentext

Charting the life and writings of W adys aw Bie kowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader W adys aw Gomüka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rule.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. A dreamer: W adys aw's formative days (1906-1939)

2. "How the steel was tempered": A communist in the East and in the underground (1939-1945)

3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A demiurge of the "gentle revolution" (1945-1948).

4. "The neck that turned Gomüka's head": The Stalinist purgatory (1948-1953)

5. A revolutionary (1953-1959)

6. Contesting the drab "real socialism" (1959-1968)

7. A dissident (1968-1980)

8. Faust in an ivory tower. What has remained of socialism? (1980-1991)

Concluding remarks

Index