Published: 2018-09-241

In the Circle of Biographies of Totalitarianism

Eugeniusz Hull

Abstract

The biographies of Bolesław Bierut, Ja­cek Różański and Jerzy Borejsza - the creators of Polish stalinizm - were subjected to analysis. The most important research problems of the totalitarian epoch were presented and its basic concepts were set against contemporary histo­riography.

The most crucial questions concentrate around the role played by biographics, evalua­tion of its source values and its function of a significant supplement to a historical synthe­sis. An analysis of the biographies connected with the totalitarian period leads also towards a sphere of ethical problems, which constitutes an indispensable element of wider cognition of historical philosophy and its nature.

 

Keywords:

historical biographics, recollective literature, communist totalitarianism, stalinism, he underground struggling for independence, Bolesław Bierut, Jacek Różański, Jerzy Borejsza

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Hull, E. (2018). In the Circle of Biographies of Totalitarianism. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (2), 175–190. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/987

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