The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland

Charting the life and writings of Władysław Bieńkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right-hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rule. It considers the shaping of Bieńkowski’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 tran