Włodzimierz Brus

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Włodzimierz Brus
Neo-Marxian economics[1]
Alma materLeningrad University
John Casimir University

Włodzimierz Brus (

communist Poland. He emigrated from Poland in 1972, removed from power after the 1968 Polish political crisis. Brus spent the rest of his life in the United Kingdom
.

Early life and education

Brus was born in 1921 into a

Comintern
teacher and also worked in a factory.

Towards the end of the war, Brus returned to Poland with the Soviet controlled

Ministry of Public Security of Poland, Franciszek Jóźwiak. (1945–1949).[citation needed
]

Career

After the war, Brus became the head of propaganda for the communist

Poznań 1956 uprising, most of the council's proposals were ignored.[2] In 1956, he remarried Wolińska, who had recently been fired from her job as a military prosecutor, accused of violating the rule of law in staged trials of Polish officers, which frequently resulted in executions.[3][4]

In 1961, Brus's most influential work The General Problems of the Functioning of the Socialist Economy was published. In it he argued that both democracy and market mechanisms were a necessity on the road to socialism. In 1965, he testified in defense of

Kazimierz Laski
, he published From Marx to the Market, which expanded the arguments presented in Brus's 1961 work.

Grave of Włodzimierz Brus and Helena Wolińska-Brus in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford

Polish prosecutors issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) against his wife Wolińska on 20 November 2007.[5] Brus died earlier that year, on 31 August 2007.[6]

Brus's intellectual contributions were summarised in the Royal Economic Society's newsletter after his death.[6]

References

  1. Fund
    Library, 1978, p. 4.
  2. ^ a b Toporowski, Jan (13 November 2007). "Wlodzimierz Brus". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
  3. ^ a b Applebaum, Anne (6 December 1998). "The Three Lives of Helena Brus". The Sunday Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2 March 2020. (reproduced on Applebaum's website)
  4. ^ Hodge, Nick (31 December 2008). "Controversial communist prosecutor dies in UK". Krakow Post.
  5. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  6. ^ a b Toporowski, Jan (October 2007). "Wlodzimierz Brus" (PDF). RES Newsletter (139). Royal Economic Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
Awards
Preceded by Deutscher Memorial Prize
1976 		Succeeded by
S. S. Prawer
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