Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland - The Life of Wladyslaw Bienkowski, Communist Leader 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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bartlomiej Kapica, Bartłomiej Kapica
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032790039
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279003-9
• Pagine: 258
• Serie: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Eastern Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Regional Studies, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Biography: historical, political and military, Marxism & Communism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General