Andrzej Paczkowski

Andrzej Paczkowski (1 October 1938 – 3 January 2026) 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 Maria and her husband Stanisław Paczkowski.

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.

From 1974 to 1995 (for seven terms) he was a president of the Polish Mountaineering Association (Polski Związek Alpinizmu).

Paczkowski died in Warsaw on 3 January 2026, at the age of 87.

Works Prasa polonijna w latach 1870-1939: zarys problematyki (1977) Prasa i społeczność polska we Francji w latach 1920-1940 (Press and the Polish Community in France 1920–1940) (1979) Prasa polska w latach 1918-1939 (Polish Press 1918–1939) (1980) Stanisław Mikołajczyk 1901-1966. Zarys biografii politycznej (1991) Pół wieku dziejów Polski 1939-1989 (Half Century of the History of Poland 1939–1989) (2000) Od sfałszowanego zwycięstwa do prawdziwej klęski: szkice do portretu PRL (1999) Droga do "mniejszego zła": strategia i taktyka obozu władzy; lipiec 1980 - styczeń 1982 (2001) Strajki, bunty, manifestacje jako "polska droga" przez socjalizm (Strikes, Revolts, Manifestations as the "Polish Way" through Socialism) (2003) Wojna polsko-jaruzelska (2006) Trzy twarze Józefa Światły: przyczynek do historii komunizmu w Polsce (2009)