The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland - The Life of Władysław Bieńkowski, Communist Leader and Socialist Thinker

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Bart¿omiej Kapica is Assistant Professor at the Research Centre for Totalitarianism at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznä in 2015. He was Assistant Professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (from 2016-2018 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bartłomiej Kapica
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032790039
• ISBN: 978-1-032-79003-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Regional Studies, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Marxism & Communism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General