- Jadwiga Staniszkis
Jadwiga Staniszkis (born April 26, 1942) is a Polish sociologist and political scientist, publicist, a former professor at the
University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu - National-Louis University.She is the granddaughter of an agricultural engineer, prof.
Witold Staniszkis . Jadwiga Staniszkis studied sociology at the Warsaw University Faculty of Philosophy, obtaining a PhD in1971 (her dissertation was named in 1973 as the best dissertation of the year). In1978 she got ahabilitation of humanistics, in the division of sociology. Since1991 she has worked as a University professor.After graduation Staniszkis worked at the Department of Sociology at her alma mater. She contributed to the active political life at the University, and for attending the student and intellectual protests against the communist government of the
People's Republic of Poland (during the1968 Polish political crisis ) she was dismissed from the University and arrested for 7 months.She is the author of several books on phenomena of socialism. Her first book about the dialectics of socialist society was translated into Japanese (see [http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000J7SZPG this] ) but the Polish manuscript was confiscated by the SB and lost. Her second book on 'Solidarity' has never been translated to Polish due to controversy, although it was published in French (two years before 'original' English edition). The fate of her book about the dynamics of transformation in Poland was similar, as it has not been published in Poland. Most of her works have been published after a transformation of political system in Poland.
In 2004 she was distinguished with the
Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science , an award called the 'Polish Nobel'.
Publications:
1. "Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution" (1984)
2. "The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe: The Polish Experience" (1991): [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft4g50067w;brand=ucpress full text]
3. "The Ontology of Socialism" (1992)
4. "Post-communism: Emerging Enigma" (1999)
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