Od akolity do dysydenta. Edmund Jan Osmańczyk w realiach Polski Ludowej

Abstract

The article is devoted to Edmund Jan Osmańczyk – the publicist, politician and a social activist who lived in the years 1913–1989. The author of the article focused on describing Osmańczyk’s social and political activity in the post-war Poland and tried to present the evolution that Osmańczyk’s views and attitude underwent. On the example of Osmańczyk, the author presented the transformation from the acolyte attitude towards the political system that was developed in Poland after 1945 to the criticism of Osmańczyk and his dissident attitude during the last years of the existence of the Polish People’s Republic.