Biography

Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...

. Professor of the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

 since 1993. As a historian, he specializes in history of Poland in the 19th century.

He was an activist of the Solidarity movement in communist Poland. After the fall of communism, he was a member of the Democratic Union

Democratic Union (Poland)

The Democratic Union was a Liberal Christian-democratic party in Poland. The party was founded in 1990 by Prime Minister, Christian democrat Tadeusz Mazowiecki as a merger of the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action and the Forum of Right Democrats .The party had a market-socialist...

 (UD) and Freedom Union

Freedom Union (Poland)

The Freedom Union was a liberal democratic party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress . Both of these parties had roots in the Solidarity trade union movement. It represented European democratic and liberal...

 (UW) parties. He was a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

) from 1989 to 1997. Afterwards, hee was a Deputy Minister in the cabinet of Jerzy Buzek

Cabinet of Jerzy Buzek

The Cabinet of Jerzy Buzek was appointed on October 31, 1997, passed the vote of confidence on November 11, 1997.-The Cabinet:...

 (1997-2001). Afterwards, he retired from active politics.

In 2007, Zdrada was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Works

• Zmierzch Czartoryskich, 1969
• Jarosław Dąbrowski: 1836-1871, 1973
• Historia Dyplomacji Polskiej Part Three (coauthor), 1982
• Wielka Emigracja po Powstaniu Listopadowym, 1987
• Historia Polski 1795-1914, 2005