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Che-Guevara-Dziennik-Z-Boliwii on kapuscinski.infohttps://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/che-guevara-dziennik-z-boliwii/Recent content in Che-Guevara-Dziennik-Z-Boliwii on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000Che Guevara — The Bolivian Diary. Polish Editions and ISBN.https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary-polish-editions-and-isbn/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary-polish-editions-and-isbn/<p>Below is a working list of Polish editions of <strong>“Che Guevara — The Bolivian Diary”</strong>. ISBN numbers are included only where they could be confirmed with reasonable certainty.</p> <h2 id="polish-editions">Polish Editions</h2> <p><strong>First Edition</strong> Year of publication: 1969 Publisher: Książka i Wiedza Print run: 10,000 copies Cover price: 25 zł Translated by: Ryszard Kapuściński ISBN: no confirmed number</p>"Che — Defeat and Victory" — Review of "The Bolivian Diary"https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-defeat-and-victory-review/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-defeat-and-victory-review/<p><strong>Author:</strong> Ludwik Stomma. <strong>Source:</strong> <em>Tygodnik Powszechny</em>, no. 18, 1970. <strong>Date of publication:</strong> 3 May 1970.</p> <hr> <p>Who is Che, really? For Americans — a terrible travelling salesman of revolution, with a reward of 50,000 pesos placed on his head. For most French people — a photogenic playboy, a demon of adventure, of which so many young people dream. For the inhabitants of the Third World — friend number one, a fascinating symbol, the embodiment of a myth. For the entire world — a romantic Don Quixote. <em>(Albert-Paul Lentin, “Guevara’s Challenge,” Le Nouvel Observateur)</em></p>"Che Guevara — The Bolivian Diary": Press Reviewshttps://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/the-bolivian-diary-press-reviews/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/the-bolivian-diary-press-reviews/<p>• 1970 <strong>Nowe Książki</strong> no. 3, 15 Feb. <em>Che Guevara’s Diaries.</em> Review by Agawa.</p> <p>• 1970 <strong>Twórczość</strong> no. 7–8. <em>Conqueror of His Own Defeat.</em> Review by Jan Wyka.</p> <p>• 1970 <strong>Tygodnik Powszechny</strong> no. 18, 3 May. <em>Che — Defeat and Victory.</em> Review by Ludwik Stomma.</p> <p>• 1970 <strong>Sztandar Młodych</strong> no. 24, 29 Jan. <em>The Human Cry from Santa Cruz.</em> Review by Anna Pawłowska.</p>"Che Guevara — The Bolivian Diary": Translator's Note by Ryszard Kapuścińskihttps://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/the-bolivian-diary-translators-note-by-ryszard-kapuscinski/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/the-bolivian-diary-translators-note-by-ryszard-kapuscinski/<h2 id="translators-note">Translator’s Note</h2> <p>Bolivian soldiers who on 8 October 1967 searched Che Guevara’s rucksack found in it two book-format diaries, written on page after page. None of the soldiers could read. After the search they returned the diaries to their unit commander — Lieutenant Gary Prado, who a few hours earlier had taken the wounded Guevara prisoner. The lieutenant passed the diaries to the divisional staff. They contained the text of the Diary that Guevara had kept throughout every day of his last epic. The Diary was a valuable prize, and many world-famous publishers began bidding for first publication rights. But in the meantime, Bolivia’s then Minister of the Interior Arguedas, in sensational circumstances, transmitted a photocopy of the Diary to the Cuban government. Nine months after Che’s death, the first book edition of Guevara’s Bolivian notes was published in Havana. The Cuban publisher gave it the title: <em>The Bolivian Diary.</em></p>"Conqueror of His Own Defeat" — Review of "Che Guevara — The Bolivian Diary"https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/conqueror-of-his-own-defeat-review/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/conqueror-of-his-own-defeat-review/<p><strong>Author:</strong> Jan Wyka. <strong>Source:</strong> <em>Twórczość</em>, no. 7–8, 1970. <strong>Date of publication:</strong> 1970.</p> <hr> <p>Partisan warfare in its many forms has belonged for years to the basic arsenal of revolutionary struggle — ever since humanity began to record its history. It opposes power that has been imposed, whether foreign or domestic, sufficiently armed and equipped for the overriding work of oppression and exploitation. It stands on the side of the oppressed. It is born of them. It is the expression of their revolt, their resistance, and their hope. Since the disproportion in arms, training, and supply between the rulers and the insurgents is enormous, a good partisan strategist strikes at the periphery of the governing centres — at the weakest positions — applying a considered tactic of harassment and sabotage, generally avoiding pitched battle. In historical perspective partisan warfare has suffered an immense number of defeats, and only isolated victories. Nevertheless it proves, in the final reckoning, to be on many occasions an indispensable strategy — the only available one — including in this summation the inevitable risk.</p>"The Human Cry from Santa Cruz" — Review of "The Bolivian Diary"https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/the-human-cry-from-santa-cruz-review/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/the-human-cry-from-santa-cruz-review/<p><strong>Author:</strong> Anna Pawłowska. <strong>Source:</strong> <em>Sztandar Młodych</em>, no. 24, 1970. <strong>Date of publication:</strong> 29 January 1970.</p> <hr> <p>From the autumn of 1967 onward, at street demonstrations, in brightly-lit university lecture halls in various countries and on various continents — almost simultaneously — the portrait appeared: the man in a dark beret with a star, the concentrated face framed by a short beard. A new, previously unknown slogan arose: “Che.” A symbol — of what? An ideal — whose?</p>Che Guevara — The Bolivian Diary, translated by Ryszard Kapuścińskihttps://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary-translated-by-ryszard-kapuscinski/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary-translated-by-ryszard-kapuscinski/<p><strong>First Edition.</strong> Year of publication: 1969. Print run: 10,000 copies. Cover price: 25 zł.</p> <p><strong>Table of Contents:</strong> Preface by Fidel Castro. Diary of Che Guevara. Documents. Biographical notes.</p> <p>This is the only book ever translated by Ryszard Kapuściński.</p> <p><em>“The partisans fell victim to the jungle. The jungle swallowed them. This is something you cannot imagine. You cannot know what malnutrition is. What it is to have no water for four days while marching with forty kilograms on your back. You cannot know what it is to have no boots.”</em> <strong>Régis Debray, shortly after the death of Che Guevara.</strong></p>Che Guevara's Diaries — Review by Agawahttps://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-guevaras-diaries-review-by-agawa/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/che-guevaras-diaries-review-by-agawa/<p><strong>Source:</strong> <em>Nowe Książki</em>, 1970.</p> <hr> <p>This is an important book for the history of the twentieth century. Setting aside even its substantive content — which is a record of the partisan operations of Guevara’s small unit on Bolivian territory, more precisely in the province of Santa Cruz (which is significant) — this book is a document illustrating the political strategy adopted as the correct strategy by the leaders of the Cuban revolution. It is therefore impossible to avoid reflection on precisely that subject. That is why Fidel Castro, who provided the preface to Guevara’s diary, considered writing it a <em>necessity</em>.</p>Excerpt from "The Bolivian Diary" — Guevara and Allende, by Ryszard Kapuścińskihttps://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/excerpt-guevara-and-allende-by-ryszard-kapuscinski/Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/che-guevara-the-bolivian-diary/excerpt-guevara-and-allende-by-ryszard-kapuscinski/<p>At a meeting someone from the floor asks me to compare the figure of Guevara with that of Allende and to say which of them was right.</p> <p>Behind this question lies the view that only one of them could have been right, and the audience awaits my choice between the path of Che Guevara and the path of Salvador Allende.</p> <p>At a certain point in his life Guevara abandons his ministerial office, abandons his desk, and goes to Bolivia, where he organises a partisan unit. He dies as its commander.</p>