Andrzej Friszke (born 29 August 1956 in
Olsztyn) is a Polish historian and lecturer. He specializes in the history of
communist Poland and the democratic opposition to the communist regime.
Friszke graduated in 1979 from the Department of History of the
University of Warsaw. Since 1980 he has worked in the
Club of Catholic Intellectuals Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej (KIK; en, Club of Catholic Intelligentsia) is a Polish organization grouping Catholic intellectuals. KIK is organized into a series of local chapters (clubs).
KIK was founded after Gomułka's Thaw in communist Poland ...
in
Warsaw. In 1981 he worked as a newspaper editor of the history section of the ''Solidarność'' weekly. Since 1982 he has also been an editor of the history section of ''Więź'' magazine. Since 1990 Friszke has worked at the Institute of Political Studies of the
Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1995 he has lectured at the
Collegium Civitas
Collegium Civitas is a private university for the social sciences located in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It is open to new inventions in higher education: interdisciplinary approaches, closer lecturer-student relations, study abroad programs, i ...
. In 1999 he was appointed to the Collegium of the
Institute of National Remembrance and worked there until 2007. In 2006 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta.
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In 1994 he received a doctoral degree in historical science, and in 2000 he was habilitated. On 25 September 2009 President Lech Kaczyński awarded him a professorial degree.[Profile](_blank)
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Works
* ''KOR. Ludzie-działania-idee'' (1983)
* ''O kształt niepodległej'' (1989)
* ''Polska Podziemna 1939–1945'' (coauthor) (1991)
* ''Opozycja polityczna w PRL 1945–1980'' (Political Opposition in the PRL 1945–1980) (1994)
* ''Polska Gierka'' (Gierek's Poland) (1995)
* ''Oaza na Kopernika. Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej 1956–1989'' (1997)
* ''Życie polityczne Emigracji'' (Political Life of the Emigration) (1999)
* ''Polska. Losy państwa i narodu 1939–1989'' (Poland. The Fate of the Country and the Nation 1939–1989) (2003)
* ''Solidarność podziemna 1981–1989'' (ed.) (2006)
* ''Przystosowanie i opór. Studia z dziejów PRL'' (2007)
* ''PRL wobec Kościoła. Akta 1970–1978'' (2010)
* ''Adam Ciołkosz
Adam Ciołkosz (; January 5, 1901 – October 1, 1978) was a Polish scout, soldier, publicist and politician, who was one of the most important leaders of the Polish Socialist Party, both in the Second Polish Republic and in exile during and ...
: Portret polskiego socjalisty'' (Adam Ciołkosz: Portrait of a Polish Socialist) (2011)
References
1956 births
21st-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
University of Warsaw alumni
Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
People from Olsztyn
Living people
Historians of Poland
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Recipients of the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
People associated with the Institute of National Remembrance
20th-century Polish historians
People associated with the magazine "Kultura"
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