BasedDescription:Based on diaries written between 1946 and 2004, in the USSR, Poland, France, and the US, this is the story of one man’s struggle to find his identity. For Polish-born Kowalski, writing this book was a moral obligation to all victims of Stalinism, including his parents. The testimony traces his professional development as a nuclear physicist and his ideological evolution from one extreme to another--from dedicated communist student in Poland to active anti-communist after retirement. Religion, ethnicity and pursuit of happiness are also presented.