Jerzy Eisler

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Jerzy Eisler

Jerzy Krzysztof Eisler (born 12 June 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish historian, focusing mostly on the history of Poland during the communist era. He is a professor at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and member of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. In 1994-97 he was a principal of Adam Mickiewicz Polish school in Paris. Eisler gained a title of professor in 2002 and was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit medal in 2006. [1]

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In Communist Poland, Eisler primarily researched Vichy France to avoid censorship; however, during the 80s, as Solidarity gained mileage in Polish politics, he authored texts on contemporary history for circulation in the underground. [2] In post-Communist Poland, his habilitation dissertation was on the 1968 Polish political crisis. [2]

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  1. Spotkanie z cyklu Konfrontacje Historyczne - Okrągły Stół. Spojrzenie z perspektywy czasu i pokoleń. at Wirtualna Polska portal
  2. 1 2 Behr, Valentin (August 2022). "How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People's Republic before and after 1989". East European Politics and Societies: And Cultures. 36 (3): 970–991. doi: 10.1177/08883254211018777 . ISSN   0888-3254.