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The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland

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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.It considers the shaping of Bienkowski's ideas in eastern Poland, later occupied by the Soviet Union, during the economic depression, the development of his great hopes for socialist socio-economic transformation as the right way forward, and his and Gomulka's attempts to enact "people's democracy" and "socialist humanism" in the period 1945 to 1948, attempts which failed, Stalinist repression coming to the fore instead. The book further discusses Bienkowski's role as a minister in the period following Stalin's death, when Bienkowski was a leading "revisionist", warning of the dangers of the "petrification of the system", and to explain how with a sense of shattered hopes he resigned from power and became a dissident, publicly critical of the regime. The book concludes by examining Bienkowski's writings in post-communist times when, now just an observer, he continued to reflect on and write about the future of socialism. Overall, the book demonstrates that communism in Eastern Europe was flexible and adaptable, and not rigidly monolithic as it is often portrayed.The book will be of interest to academics and scholars interested in the history of communism and Europe.

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ISBN: 9781032790039
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Author: Bartlomiej Kapica
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 288 pages
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Genres: European history
Social and political philosophy
Far-left political ideologies and movements
Regional / International studies