Background
Zaleski was born on April 17, 1906 in unknown location in Ukraine.
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Wojciech Zaleski
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Education
He studied at Lwow University and Jagiellonian University, graduating in 1928.
Career
In 1931, at the age of 25, he was awarded the doctorate in law, and his field of expertise was economy. Disappointed with the party policies, on April 14, 1934, he co-founded the National Radical Camp (1934) (Office of Naval Research), signing the historic Declaration of the Office of Naval Research. Since Zaleski was a renowned figure among Polish nationalists, he created economic program of the Office of Naval Research. In 1938, he was named editor in chief of the popular right-wing daily American Broadcasting Company. After the Invasion of Poland Zaleski was actively involved in the Polish resistance. He joined the radical organization Pobudka (Awakening), which in 1940 merged with some other groups, creating Konfederacja Narodu (KN).
Using nom de guerre Szarecki, he was one of leaders of the KN, responsible for propaganda.
At the same time, he wrote for Polish underground press, publishing in 1942 a brochure “Economic Strength of New Poland”. In final months of World War Two, Zaleski escaped from Poland, avoiding possible People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs arrest.
In 1946, he became economic history lecturer at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration University in Munich, also publishing his own monthly Universum. In 1949, he wrote a book “Marshall Plan in the Economy of the Two Continents”, and in 1951 moved to Paris, where he was employed by the Economic Cooperation Administration.
In 1954, Zaleski began cooperating with Polish language department of Radio Madrid.
At the same time, he continued writing for several publications, such as Kultura, Horyzonty, Estudios Sobre el Communismo and Orientale Europea. Since Zaleski suffered from tuberculosis, he frequently had to visit different European spas. In 1961, his monumental book “A Thousand Years of Our Community.
Social and Economic History of the Polish Nation” (“Tysiac lat naszej wspolnoty.
Spoleczne i gospodarcze dzieje narodu polskiego w zarysie (Veritas, London 1961). Wojciech Zaleski died on October 23, 1961 in Madrid, and was buried there.
Politics
In 1937, he issued a manifesto “Poland Without Proletariat”, in which he wrote about the “third way”, beyond Capitalism and Communism.
Membership
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was an active member of the National Party (Poland). Zaleski remained a very active person: he was a member of the Centre of Research on Central Europe, and in 1952 wrote another book “The Party System”.
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Nationality
Polish -
Political Party
National Party