Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Krzysztof Eisler (born 12 June 1952 in Warsaw

Warsaw

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) is a Polish

Poles

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 historian

Historian

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, 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

Polish Academy of Sciences

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, and member of the Institute of National Remembrance

Institute of National Remembrance

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 in Warsaw. In 1994-97 he was a principal of Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

 Polish school in Paris

Paris

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. Eisler gained a title of professor in 2002 and was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit medal in 2006.

Works

• Od monarchizmu do faszyzmu. Koncepcje polityczno - społeczne prawicy francuskiej 1918 - 1940 (From Monarchism to Fascism. Sociopolitical Conceptions of the French Right 1918-1940) (1987)
• Kolaboracja we Francji 1940 - 1944 (Collaboration in France 1940-1944) (1989)
• Marzec 1968. Geneza - przebieg - konsekwencje (1991)
• Zarys dziejów politycznych Polski 1944 - 1989 (1992)
• List 34 (Letter 34) (1993)
• Grudzień 1970. Geneza - przebieg - konsekwencje (2000)
• Polski rok 1968 (Polish Year 1968) (2006)
• "Polskie miesiące" czyli kryzys(y) w PRL (2008)

External links

• Profile at Nauka Polska portal