Andrzej Paczkowski (born 1 October 1938,

Krasnystaw Krasnystaw is a town in southeastern Poland with 18,630 inhabitants (31 December 2019). It is the capital of Krasnystaw County in the Lublin Voivodeship. The town is famous for its beer festival called ''Chmielaki'' ( means hops, hop), and for i ...

) is a Polish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, who is Professor of

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, director of Modern History Studies in the Political Institute of

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, and member of Collegium of

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. In 1960, he finished studies at the history department of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

. In 1966, Paczkowski defended his doctoral thesis, and was habilitated in 1975. In 1990, he became a professor. Between 1974 and 1995 (for 7 terms), he served as president of the Polish Mountaineering Association (Polski Związek Alpinizmu).

Works

* ''Prasa polonijna w latach 1870-1939: zarys problematyki'' (1977) * ''Prasa i społeczność polska we Francji w latach 1920-1940'' (Press and the Polish Community in France 1920–1940) (1979) * ''Prasa polska w latach 1918-1939'' (Polish Press 1918–1939) (1980) * ''

Stanisław Mikołajczyk Stanisław Mikołajczyk (; 18 July 1901 – 13 December 1966) was a Polish politician. He was a prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II, and later Deputy Prime Minister in post-war Poland until 1947. Biography Bac ...

1901-1966. Zarys biografii politycznej'' (1991) * ''Pół wieku dziejów Polski 1939-1989'' (Half Century of the History of Poland 1939–1989) (2000) * ''Od sfałszowanego zwycięstwa do prawdziwej klęski: szkice do portretu PRL'' (1999) * ''Droga do "mniejszego zła": strategia i taktyka obozu władzy; lipiec 1980 - styczeń 1982'' (2001) * ''Strajki, bunty, manifestacje jako "polska droga" przez socjalizm'' (Strikes, Revolts, Manifestations as the "Polish Way" through Socialism) (2003) * ''Wojna polsko-jaruzelska'' (2006) * ''Trzy twarze Józefa Światły: przyczynek do historii komunizmu w Polsce'' (2009)

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