Mariusz Maszkiewicz grew up in the poor family in Goleniów near Szczecin where he completed his primary and secondary schools.

Unlike many 'underground' pro-democracy groups, who kept out of public scrutiny to avoid repercussions from the government, members of Wolność i Pokój had an open strategy and strove to make themselves— and their opposition to totalitarian rule— unavoidably visible: they climbed up rooftops, went on hunger strikes, and openly spurned the military, sending back their draft papers [1].

Published in oppositional press many articles, poems; one of the most important was the mini-novel about polish-communist’s participation in the invasion to Czechoslovakia in 1968, as the manifesto of the peaceful resistance of Polish youth against general Jaruzelski’s regime.

[1] Arrested on March 24, 2006, alongside hundreds of others, for protesting against the re-election of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, a vote that Western observers claim was fraudulent.

From May 2013 till November 2016 worked in the Department of Public and Cultural Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

He has published more than 10 books (monographs and collective works) as well as dozens of articles and studies on international relations, anthropology, sociology, history and culture.