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This powerful memoir traces the life of Karol Modzelewski, one of the preeminent Polish dissidents of the twentieth century. With humor and perception, Modzelewski describes his formative years. Born in 1937 to a Polish-born mother and Russian-Jewish father in Moscow, he spent his early schooling and underwent deep indoctrination in the Soviet Union. In 1945 he moved with his mother and stepfather, a prominent communist, to Poland when his stepfather was appointed as foreign minister in Warsaw. In the relatively liberal Polish atmosphere, Modzelewski gradually awoke to the realities of the party system during his university years.
Modzelewski discusses the experiences and realizations that led him in 1964 to coauthor with Jacek Kuro the famous Open Letter to the Party, for which he and Kuro were imprisoned. With keen critical insight, Modzelewski describes his role as one of the leading intellectuals of the Solidarity movement.
Much more than mere autobiography, this nuanced book is a profound and highly critical analysis of Polish politics over the last fifty years. Characteristically, Modzelewski refuses to portray events in black and white terms, providing a frank assessment of the countrys evolution from communism to democracy, the genesis of Polish dissidence and its success in dismantling communism, and the causes of the current crisis of democracy in Poland.
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Riding History to Death
Riding History to Death
Confessions of a Battered Rider
Karol Modzelewski
Edited and translated by
Frank L. Vigoda
Introduction by
Irena Grudziska Gross
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Lanham Boulder New York London
This publication has been supported by the POLAND Translation Program
Published by Rowman & Littlefield
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Originally published in Polish as Zajedzimy koby historii. Wyznania poobijanego jedcaby Wydawnictwo Iskry 2013.
2021 by Ewa Modzelewska-Kossowska, and Adam Modzelewski
English translation copyright 2021 by Frank L. Vigoda (Ann Frenkel and Gwido Zlatkes)
All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
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Names: Modzelewski, Karol, 1937-2019, author. | Vigoda, Frank L, editor.
Title: Riding history to death : confessions of a battered rider / Karol
Modzelewski ; edited by Frank L. Vigoda ; Introduction by Irena
Grudzinska Gross.
Other titles: Zajezdzimy kobye historii. English
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020056597 (print) | LCCN 2020056598 (ebook) | ISBN
9781538141618 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538141625 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Modzelewski, Karol, 1937-2019. |
Dissenters--Poland--Biography. | Poland--Politics and
government--1945-1980. | Poland--Politics and government--1980-1989.
Classification: LCC DK4435.M634 A3 2021 (print) | LCC DK4435.M634 (ebook)
| DDC 943.805092 [B]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056597
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056598
TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
To my dearest ones
and Local Names
ABW, Agencja Bezpieczestwa Wewntrznego, Internal Security Agency (after 1989)
AK, Armia Krajowa, Home Army (World War II)
AL, Armia Ludowa, Peoples Army (World War II)
Archimedes, tool and pneumatic device factory in Wrocaw
Aspa, welding implements factory in Wrocaw.
AWS, Akcja Wyborcza Solidarno, Solidarity Electoral Action (a political party, after 1989)
Barczewo, Zakad Karny w Barczewie (penitentiary for first-time offenders in Barczewo near Olsztyn)
BHP, Bezpieczestwo i higiena pracy, occupational safety and health
Biaoka, internment camp and prison in Biaoka at the outskirts of Warsaw
Bumar, multifactory arms production corporation
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