The History of a False Illusion-Memoirs on the Communist Movement in Poland, 1918-1938

P. Minc (Aleksander) was a leader of the Communist Party of Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. In his stirring memoirs he recounts the activities of the Communists among the workers of Warsaw and the other industrial centers of interwar Poland, providing an eye-witness view of the struggle against the Polish state's pervasive anti-Semitism and its oppresion of the peoples of Western Byelorussia and the Western Ukraine. Minc's account of the leaders of Polish Communism, of life inside Pilsudski's prisons, of Communist Party congresses and meetings of the Communist International casts a spotlight on the impact of the Russian Revolution and its bureaucratic degeneration under Stalin. This rich historical document concludes with Minc's activities in Poland, Czechoslovakia and France as a supporter of Leon Trotsky Robert Michaels is associated with the Prometheus Research Library, a Marxist archival and research facility in New York He is the translator of Hersh Mendel's Memoirs of a Jewish Revolutionary (1989)P. Minc is the author of 'The History of a False Illusion-Memoirs on the Communist Movement in Poland, 1918-1938' with ISBN 9780773472273 and ISBN 0773472274.