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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER COMMUNIST


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Ludwik KowalskiThreads: 1
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 Jan 3, 10, 06:31    #1
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER STALINIST

Please share this link with those who might be interested.

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/mybook2.html

P.S. The book is waiting for a reviewerę

Ludwik KowalskiThreads: 1
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 Jan 3, 10, 06:54    #2
Sorry for a typing mistake in the last line?

P.S. The book is waiting for a reviewer
1jolaThreads: 33
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 Jan 3, 10, 09:05    #3
I am a little puzzled over the self-designation as a "Stalinist." We usually refer to Stalinists as the persons who were part of the terror machine impossed by Stalin. A scientist, who lived and worked under such system but did not participate in administrating such terror was not a Stalinist even if he believed in communism.

This is my personal view, or rather a request for an explaination.

I have read Błażyński's book "Mówi Józef Swiatło." Światło was a Stalinist, a dispicable one, and I would have a hard time in grouping these two men together.

If I read the book in the OP, will I be likely to change my mind?
joepilsudskiThreads: 44
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 Jan 9, 10, 21:20    #4
Ludwik Kowalski:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FORMER STALINIST

Send me a copy of the book and I will read it and review it on my website.
Mr GrunwaldThreads: 34
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 Jan 12, 10, 03:42    #5
Aren't Stalinists thoose who prefer Communism in a form wich Stalin led it?
Have I grasped something wrong? :S
1jolaThreads: 33
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 Jan 14, 10, 14:41    #6
No doubt it this would be a good read and not often we get a professor of Nuclear Physics posting here. I think the tittle is to grab the poptential reader's attention - which it does.

I'm going to order it and I wish JP would too as he has written some very good essays in the past so he would do it justice as a reviewer. The book is only 12 bucks and the :

Royalties will be donated to a Montclair State University scholarship fund.

We are not a very serious bunch here so I am not surprised he hasn't come back.
TymoteuszThreads: 7
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 Jan 14, 10, 18:31    #7
Certainly worth a read. Thanks for posting.



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