Andrzej Paczkowski


Andrzej Paczkowski was a Polish historian. He was a professor at Collegium Civitas, director of Modern History Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Collegium of the Institute of National Remembrance.

Life and career

Paczkowski was born in Krasnystaw on 1 October 1938, to Stanisław Paczkowski and his wife Maria.
After completing secondary school in Warsaw, he studied history at the University of Warsaw from 1955 to 1960, graduating with a master’s degree. In 1966, he defended his doctoral thesis, and in 1975 he received his habilitation.
He taught and conducted research at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the National Library, and later at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he became head of the Department of Contemporary History.
Paczkowski was widely recognised for his work on the history of the Polish press, the Polish People’s Republic, and the opposition movement.
From 1974 to 1995 he was a president of the Polish Mountaineering Association.
Paczkowski died in Warsaw on 3 January 2026, at the age of 87.

Works

Prasa polonijna w latach 1870-1939: zarys problematyki Prasa i społeczność polska we Francji w latach 1920-1940 Prasa polska w latach 1918-1939 Stanisław Mikołajczyk 1901-1966. Zarys biografii politycznej Pół wieku dziejów Polski 1939-1989 Od sfałszowanego zwycięstwa do prawdziwej klęski: szkice do portretu PRL Droga do "mniejszego zła": strategia i taktyka obozu władzy; lipiec 1980 - styczeń 1982 Strajki, bunty, manifestacje jako "polska droga" przez socjalizm Wojna polsko-jaruzelska