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- ISBN 9783631828083
- Weight: 394g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Kazimierz Moczarski (1907–1975) was a journalist, soldier, and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought for it in the authoritarian Poland of the 1930s. During the Second World War, he partook in the resistance movement. After the war, he spent eleven years in a Stalinist prison, including nine months in one cell with the Nazi Jürgen Stroop, who commanded the brutal pacification of the Warsaw Ghetto. The communists imprisoned Moczarski’s wife. After release, he rebuilt the broken marriage, rejoined social life, and wrote a work about meeting Stroop. Translated into many languages, Conversations with the Executioner is a thorough study of totalitarianism.
Anna Machcewicz is an assistant professor in the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She was a research fellow at Yale University and Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Her main research fields are the social history of Communism and democratic opposition in Poland.
