From Wartime Diary to Academic Writing: The USSR as Perceived by Włodzimierz Brus

• In Event: From Biographical Memory to Professional Expertise: Personal Experience and the Study of Communism

Abstract

This paper analyzes Włodzimierz Brus's scholarly work on the USSR through the
lens of his autobiographical wartime experiences. Brus documented his experiences as a
refugee in the USSR during World War II in a journal, revealing contradictory assessments of
Soviet reality. These experiences profoundly influenced his later academic writings on the
USSR.

Author

• Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, Inst of Political Science PAS (Poland)