Piotr Stefan Wandycz (20 September 1923 – 29 July 2017)
Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
Year: 2018

The demise of Professor Wandycz closed a chapter in a history of Polish historiography.He belonged to a group of outstanding Polish historians who came to North America during and shortly after the Second World War.Throughout the worst years of the communist regime in Warsaw, when the Soviet Marxist orthodoxy stifl ed historical research in Poland, they wrote essential works, contributed to the development of the world scholarship, and upheld the best tradition of historiography.Some of them, su