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Author Machcewicz, Anna, author.

Title Civility in uncivil times : Kazimierz Moczarski's quiet battle for truth, from the Polish underground to Stalinist prison / Anna Machcewicz ; translated by Maja Latynska
Published Berlin : Peter Lang GmbH, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Polish studies, transdisciplinary perspectives ; volume 32
Polish studies, transdisciplinary perspectives ; v. 32.
Summary 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
Analysis anti-Semitism
Kazimierz
Machcewicz
Moczarski
Polish
political prisoner
post-Stalinist thaw
Stalinism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 01, 2020)
Subject Moczarski, Kazimierz, 1907-1975.
SUBJECT Moczarski, Kazimierz, 1907-1975 fast
Subject Political prisoners -- Poland -- Biography
Journalists -- Poland -- Biography
Journalists
Political prisoners
Politics and government
SUBJECT Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104117
Subject Poland
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Latynska, Maja, translator
ISBN 9783631834015
3631834012