The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland: The Life of Władysław Bieńkowski, Communist Leader and Socialist Thinker
Author:   Bartłomiej Kapica
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032790039


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bartłomiej Kapica
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781032790039


ISBN 10:   1032790032
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. A dreamer. Władysław’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 Gomułka’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

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Bartłomiej 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 Poznań, 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.

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