Seweryn Bialer
Seweryn Bialer ( born November 3, 1926 in Berlin ) is a professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University in New York City.
Life
During the Second World War came Bialer 1942 the Polish resistance in Łódź. In 1944 he was in the concentration camp at Auschwitz -Birkenau until the liberation. Since May 1945 he was a member of the police in Poland, the Milicja Obywatelska under the Ministry of Public Security ( Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego ) under stood. At the same time he was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party PZPR and a member of its Central Committee.
From June 1951 to Bialer professor at the Institute of Sociology and political editor at the newspaper of the Communist Party Trybuna ludu was ( tribune ). During this time he conducted research at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and was the author of various policy manuals.
Bialer sat down in January 1956 to West Berlin and gave a long interview with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in New York, which was sent in the following period. After moving to New York, he received his doctorate from Columbia University in Political Science. In the following years, Bialer dealt with analyzes of the Soviet system and its transformation in the 1980s and published several books on the subject. At Columbia University, he held the Chair of Political Science at the Robert and Renee Belfer Foundation.