Anniversaries and events
Anniversaries linked to the author and the book. Author meetings and the publication of the new edition will be announced here.
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Anniversary
95th anniversary of Bogumił Studziński's birth
On 24 October 1931 Bogumił Studziński was born in Kamień Duży, in the Radom region — a political prisoner in 1950–1955, later a lawyer and co-founder of ROPCiO, and the author of the memoir W lochach socjalizmu.
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Anniversary
50th anniversary of the Movement for the Defence of Human and Civic Rights
On 25 March 1977, 18 signatories of the “Appeal to Polish Society”, Bogumił Studziński among them, launched ROPCiO.
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Anniversary
40th anniversary of Bogumił Studziński's death
Bogumił Studziński died in Warsaw on 20 July 1987. A year later the underground publisher „Kurs” printed his memoir, W lochach socjalizmu.
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- HistoryThe context of the memoir: the youth underground after 1945, Rawicz prison, the ROPCiO human-rights movement and the underground publisher „Kurs”. With sources.
- The authorIn the underground from 1945, political prisoner 1950–1955, lawyer, co-founder of the ROPCiO human-rights movement, interned in 1981. Life, timeline, sources.
- The bookA political prisoner's memoir of Stalinist Poland, 1950–1955: the 1988 underground edition (Kurs, 130 pp.), the 2001 edition, and a new annotated edition.