Ludwik Hass
{{Short description|Polish historian (1918–2008)}}
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| name = Ludwik Hass
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|11|18}}
| birth_place = Stanyslaviv, West Ukrainian People's Republic
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|04|08| 1918|11|18}}
| death_place = Warsaw, Poland
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| thesis_title = Wybory warszawskie 1918–1926
| thesis_year = 1971
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| doctoral_advisor = Henryk Jabłoński
| discipline = History
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| workplaces = Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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| main_interests = History of Freemasonry
| notable_works = Sekta farmazonii warszawskiej
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Ludwik Hass (1918–2008) was a Polish historian who specialised in the history of Freemasonry in Poland.
Biography
=Early life=
Hass was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Stanyslaviv. He was brought up in a middle-class family which had been assimilated to Polish nationalism. Hass first came into contact with communist ideas at the Humanities Gymnasium he attended in Stanisławowo,{{cite journal |last1=Crawford |first1=Edward |title=Obituary: Ludwik Hass (1918–2008) |journal=Revolutionary History |date=2008 |volume=10 |issue=1 |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol10/no1/crawford.html |access-date=29 May 2024 |issn=0953-2382}} through his association with the left wing of the Związek Polskiej Młodzieży Demokratycznej. Whilst studying at the Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza, he became a member of the Union of Independent Socialist Youth,{{cite journal |last1=Sołtysiak |first1=Grzegorz |title=The Hass Group |journal=Revolutionary History |date=1996 |volume=6 |issue=1 |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol6/no1/soltysiak.html |access-date=28 May 2024}} a Marxist, anti-nationalist group that opposed antisemitism.{{cite web |last1=Bukowska-Marczak |first1=Eva |title=The Union of Independent Socialist Youth |url=https://lia.lvivcenter.org/en/organizations/molod-socialistychna/ |website=lia.lvivcenter.org |access-date=28 May 2024}} By this stage Hass had become critical of Stalinism and gained a reputation within the Union as a Trotskyist, without having any knowledge of what that meant. The exaggerated tirades against Trotskyism performed by Union leader Adam Schaff merely served to pique Hass’s interest. He then joined an anti-Stalinist group, becoming exposed to critical ideas through Leon Trotsky's dissident publication Byulletin’ Oppozitsii and the Belgian paper Lutte Ouvrière.{{cite journal |last1=Sołtysiak |first1=Grzegorz |title=The Hass Group |journal=Revolutionary History |date=1996 |volume=6 |issue=1 |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol6/no1/soltysiak.html |access-date=28 May 2024}}
=Arrest=
Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he found himself in the territory of the Soviet Union. He was arrested and sent to Vorkutlag. He attributed his survival due to being assigned office work thanks to his education. He was released in 1948 and remained in the Soviet Union until he returned to Poland in 1957. On his arrival in Warsaw he astounded a welcoming delegation of students, by announcing that he was a revolutionary who wanted to overthrow the bureaucracy. He then sang The Internationale and gave a clenched fist salute.{{cite web|last1=Ted|first1=Crawford|title=Ted Crawford: Obituary - Ludwik Hass (1918-2008)|url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol10/no1/crawford.html|website=www.marxists.org|publisher=Marxists Internet Archive|accessdate=25 October 2017}}
References
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Texts by Hass
- [http://rcin.org.pl/Content/28112/WA303_43640_1983-48_APH_05_o.pdf "The Russian Masonic Movement in the Years 1906 - 1918"], (1983) Acta Poloniae Historica 48, {{ISSN|0001-6829}}
External links
- [https://www.marxists.org/archive/hass/index.htm Ludwik Hass Archive] at marxists.org
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Wq4htjuyQ Youtube video of his funeral]
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