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• Title:
  Better Not at All Than Not Well. A Review of a Biography of Władysław Gomułka
• Creator:
  Eisler, Jerzy
• Description:
  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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Date:
  2018.03.10
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Kwartalnik Historyczny; Tom 124 (2017): Special Issue; 159-176;
  2451-1315;
  0023-5903
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2017.124.SI.2.06/14336
• Subject:
  Władysław Gomułka ‘Wiesław’;
  communism;
  Polish United Workers’ Party;
  Polish Workers’ Party;
  Anita Prażmowska;
  biography;
  communist leadership
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/KH/article/view/KH.2017.124.SI.2.06
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text