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Ludwik Kowalski is a retired physics teacher (Professor emeritus, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA). He is the author of two recently-published FREE books:
1) "Hell on Earth: Brutality and violence under the Stalinist regime" :
This diary-based autobiography illustrates his ideological evolution from one extreme (a devoted Stalinist) to another (an active anticommunist). He hopes that someone will review this book soon, either at this forum or elsewhere. Contact him in private, if you are interested. Reviews of several readers can be seen at amazon.com .
Ludwik's email address is available at this website.
He and his wife, Linda, live in Fort Lee, close to New York City. Born in 1931, Ludwik is still able to enjoy downhill skiing, walking, sweeming, and traveling. On August 7, 2010 he became a grandfather, for the first time.
Educated in the Soviet Union (elementary school, until 1946), in Poland (high school and master's degree), and in France (Ph.D. in nuclear physics), he came to the United States in 1964. Ludwik Kowalski is also the author and co-author of about one hundred scientific publications, plus one elementary physics textbook.
Since retiring, in 2004, he has been involved in four kinds of activity:
A) Reading and thinking about education, especially in connection with negative aspects of computer-based artificial intelligence. He believes that learning must be a pleasure-giving activity.
B) Investigations of so-called cold fusion, as shown at
< http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/ >
C) Sharing what he knows and think about Stalinism. The first book is dedicated to his father who died in a Siberian labor camp, at the age of 36
D) Writing and publishing short articles on various topics. Some of these are posted at his own website, others are published as OpEdNews items.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 FREE ON-LINE BOOKS: HOW TO PROMOTE THEM (4 comments)
A free on-line book (accessible over the Internet) is a possible alternative to a printed book. Is this alternative desirable? How should it be implemented?
Saturday, February 27, 2010 Proletarian Dictatorship Laboratory (5 comments)
Communism is not Stalinism, they often say. But data from the first implementation of proletarian dictatorship are worth examining (instead of ignoring).
Saturday, October 17, 2009 Cognitive Structure of Science (12 comments)
Comments on scientific methodology of validation
Monday, July 6, 2009 Natural or Not Natural? (1 comments)
A comment on resolution, approved by Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE), about a day of remembrance for the victims Naziism and Stalinism.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Will Cold Fusion Solve Our Energy Problems? (9 comments)
Based on the CBS program about the Cold Fusion Controversy. A scientific controversy, unlike a political one, will be solved because opponents agree on an acceptable methodology of validation.
Friday, April 10, 2009 Iron Fist Versus Socialism (8 comments)
Stalinism was Goal-oriented, but being goal-oriented does not mean to be a Stalinist.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Stalin and Russian Orthodox Church (5 comments)
The Russian Orthodox webpage
www.russian-victories.ru
glorifies Stalin. How can this paradox be explained?
Thursday, February 19, 2009 Supply and demand (22 comments)
Is it used properly (in most textbooks) to predict prevailing prices in models of classical markets?
Saturday, January 17, 2009 Nuclear Cold Fusion (4 comments)
Research in that area should be publicly supported.
Friday, January 16, 2009 Nuclear Cold Fusion (2 comments)
The field deserves a reconsideration.
Saturday, January 3, 2009 Scientific Method (2 comments)
Cold Fusion, now called CMNS, is not dead. It is still fighting for recognition.
Friday, December 26, 2008 Regulating the Economy (11 comments)
Social engineers (economist and other political scientists) must be honest and knowledgeable.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 A New Treason Bill ?
New definitions of treason would give Russian authorities vast, some say Stalinist, discretion in prosecuting dissent. Will the new Russian legislation be approved?
Monday, December 22, 2008 Revisionist Historians (4 comments)
What evidence do we have that most old Bolshevics were German and Japanese spies?
Thursday, December 18, 2008 My Stalin (5 comments)
Stalinism was neither science nor religion. Why is confronting Soviet history is still very difficult in Russia?
Friday, December 12, 2008 Oh, Russia (7 comments)
Confiscation of an important Stalinist archive in Russia
Monday, December 8, 2008 On Stalin's Order? (1 comments)
Kirov assassination
