Dlaczego nie lubimy biografii dotyczących osób z czasów PRL?

Why the biographies of people from the Polish People’s Republic are not appreciated?

The first twenty-five years of the Third Polish Republic saw only a few – well or not so well written – monographs devoted solely to important and significant political figures of that time. Monographs with their clear structure – a description of a person’s life from birth to death – are preferred choice of researchers as well as the wider audience of history lovers. These books feature a person against the historical background of a particular epoch and it is therefore essential to keep the right proportions between a personal story and the historical background. Finally, – and in my opinion this is probably most important – distinguished individuals, who in general feature as the main characters of biographies, grasp readers’ attention because the question whether it is an individual who shapes the reality or rather the rather way round, always remains valid. Without biographies then, it would probably be impossible to explain certain issues, phenomena and events.