Better Not at All Than Not Well. A Review of a Biography of Władysław Gomułka

• Authors: Jerzy Eisler
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Władysław Gomułka was the Polish communist leader who, most probably, played the most important role in the history of Poland. In the years 1943–48 he was the Secretary of the Polish Workers’ Party, and next, from 1956 to 1970, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party. According to the rule ‘the more power the more responsibility’, which had particular significance in non-democratic systems, Gomułka was responsible or co-responsible for everything good but also for everything bad that happened in Poland during his rule. At the same time he is this Polish communist leader, on whose life and activity over twenty books were published. One of the recent ones was published by Anita Prażmowska. Unfortunately, this is not a successful attempt.

Keywords

PL

Władysław Gomułka ‘Wiesław’; communism; Polish United Workers’ Party; Polish Workers’ Party; Anita Prażmowska; biography; communist leadership

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 124

Dates

published

2017

online

2018-03-10

Contributors

author

Jerzy Eisler

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/KH.2017.124.SI.2.06