Drogi i bezdroża życia „prawdziwego komunisty”. Kilka uwag na marginesie książki Piotra Lipińskiego
Roads and Wilderness of the Life of a “True Communist”. Several Remarks on the Margins of the Book by Piotr Lipiński

Summary/Abstract: Piotr Lipiński’s work entitled “Bierut. Kiedy partia była bogiem” (Bierut. When the Party Was God) is an interested contribution to capturing the history of Stalinism in Poland. Bolesław Bierut is one of the key figures of the period when Poland was subjected to Stalinisation (1944/1945–1956). "is biography is characterised by its inconsistence and variedness while at the same time the topicality of the historical process and experience shared by millions of citizens of the Polish People’s Republic. It is no typical historical biography but a multifaceted biographical reportage, written lightly yet drawing on solid research techniques used by historians as well as correctly anchored in source material. The novelty here consists in original interviews with Bierut’s former collaborators as well as persons who have come into contact with him. This has allowed the Author to offer Bierut’s both microscale – referring to his personal life – and macroscale picture (the latter by sketching his figure against broader constituent parts of a historical process).

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