Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (27 June 1913,

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative ...

– 18 February 2005,

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) was a historian of Poland, Russia and modern Europe.

Life

Born in

Zhytomir Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

(now

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), Dziewanowski was the son of Kamil and Zofia (Kamieńska) Dziewanowski."Dziewanowski, M. Kamil," in ''Who's Who in Polish America''. Ed. Bolesław Wierzbiański. New York: Bicentennial Publishing Corp., 1996, 102-103. He grew up and studied in

interwar Poland The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First World ...

at the Jagiellonian University in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

. In 1937–39 he was a foreign correspondent in Berlin, covering the ''

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'' with

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, the

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, and the German occupation of the Sudetenland. During the German invasion of

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, Dziewanowski served as a Polish cavalry platoon leader. Later he served in England as an instructor/interpreter at a school for paratroopers and saboteurs, as an editor of a secret radio station working with the resistance in Poland, as a

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commentator, and, in Washington, as an aide to the Polish military attache. While in Britain, he married Ada Karczewska in 1946. After the war, he chose to remain in exile rather than return to communist Poland. He moved to the

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, where at

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he earned one of the first postwar doctorates in Russian and East European history. The topic of his dissertation was "Genealogy of a Party: Origins and Beginnings of the Communist Party of Poland," and it was supervised by

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.''ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global'' database. It was later revised and published by

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as ''Communist Party of Poland: An Outline History'' (1959; 2nd ed., 1976). Dziewanowski taught at Boston College from 1954 to 1965, and then at

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from 1965 to 1979, where he attained the rank of

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. From 1979 to 1984 he taught at the

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. Dziewanowski authored the most popular articles and books on 19th- and 20th-century

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and

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history. He wrote important works on the political ideas of

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...

, the most prominent Polish politician of the

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, and of the great 19th-century Polish and Russian politician, Prince

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (; lt, Аdomas Jurgis Čartoriskis; 14 January 177015 July 1861), in English known as Adam George Czartoryski, was a Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author. The son of a wealthy prince, he began his political c ...

. He was a member of the

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, headquartered in

Works

*''Russia in the Twentieth Century'' *''Poland in the Twentieth Century'' *'' A History of Soviet Russia and Its Aftermath'' *''War At Any Price: World War II In Europe, 1939-1945'' *''Communist Party of Poland: An Outline History'' *''Alexander I: Russia's Mysterious Tsar'' *''The Revolution of 1904-1905 and the Marxist Movement of Poland'' *''Pilsudski's Federal Policy, 1919-1921'' *''Joseph Pilsudski: A European Federalist, 1918-1922'' *''Czartoryski and His ''Essai sur la diplomatie

References

* Donald Pienkos
Marian Kamil Dziewanowski is Remembered
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* M.K. Dziewanowski, ''War at Any Price'', 2nd ed., 1991, preface, p. xi. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dziewanowski, Marian Kamil 1913 births 2005 deaths Writers from Zhytomyr People from Zhitomirsky Uyezd People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish emigrants to the United States Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Boston University faculty University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty Diplomats of the Second Polish Republic Polish military personnel of World War II 20th-century American male writers People associated with the magazine "Kultura"

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