Ludwic Hass Polish Marxist historian, Trotskyist. Date of Birth: 18.11.1918 Country: Poland

Biography of Ludwik Hass

Ludwik Hass was a Polish Marxist historian and Trotskyist. He studied history at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. In 1936, he joined the underground Union of Independent Socialist Youth, which led to his expulsion from Lviv University. Later, as a member of the Trotskyist organization "Bolshevik-Leninists," he was arrested in 1939 and sentenced to 8 years in labor camps and lifelong exile.

Until 1947, Hass was confined to Komi, and after 1953, he was granted amnesty but denied the right to return to Poland. In 1956, he moved to Lviv. On January 15, 1957, Ludwik Hass managed to return to Poland, where he worked in the National Archives and resumed his studies at the University of Warsaw, which he completed in 1962. Shortly after returning from exile, he joined an illegal leftist group, which resulted in further repression and imprisonment for distributing the "Open Letter" by Jacek Kuroń and Karol Modzelewski among Polish workers.

In the 1970s, Ludwik Hass researched the history of Freemasonry in Poland, Russia, and Western Europe. In the 1980s, he actively participated in the activities of the illegal group "Fighting Class." In the 1990s, he collaborated extensively with the Revolutionary Left Current (Nurt Lewicy Rewolucyjnej) and published actively in their publication "Forward!" (Dalej!), as well as in the renowned series "Revolutionary History."

Hass also authored research on history, including "Political Positions and Activities of the Working Class (1918-1939)" and "Trotskyism: From the Left Opposition to the Fourth International." In 2005, Ludwik Hass was awarded the "Golden Pen" prize by the Polish Freemasons (Złote pióro Wolnomularza Polskiego).