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Political-Military Academy ( pl, Wojskowa Akademia Polityczna im. Feliksa Dzierżyńskiego) – was a Soviet style

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, established by the

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government, in the

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. It operated in

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from 1951 until 1990, and was an institution with high school status, founded for indoctrination of higher command of military forces of Communist Poland. The alumni of the Political-Military Academy became political commissars in the Army.

History

The academy was opened on March 22, 1951, in the campus that had been used by the Academy of Political Officers at Rembertow. On July 18, 1951, it was named after

. Soon afterwards, it was moved to former Europejski Hotel in the center of Warsaw, and in 1954 it was moved again, to the campus of Academy of Polish Army Headquarters, located on Opaczewska Street. The academy's structure was based on Moscow's V.I. Lenin Political-Military Academy, as its founder, Colonel Jan Hoffman was its graduate. Most of its staff were officers of the former Academy of Political Officers, as well as a group of

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political officers. Among lecturers were

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, Tadeusz Kotarbinski,

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, and Stanislaw Kania. In the first years of existence, the academy had eight faculties: * History of Poland and Polish Workers’ Movement, * History of the World and International Workers’ Movement, * History of Wars and Warfare, * History of Tactics and Headquarters, * History of War Geography, * History of Political Economics, * History of Marxism–Leninism, * History of Party and Political Work. In 1954, the Military-Legal Faculty was added. In December 1958, the faculties of History and Pedagogy were added, and in early 1961, the Military Legal Institute was opened within the academy. In 1966, the Center of Social Studies was opened. The academy was dissolved on May 21, 1990, and most of its campus was transferred to Warsaw University.Zarządzenie Ministra Nauki, Szkolnictwa Wyższego i Techniki z dnia 14 stycznia 1975 w sprawie wykazu/placówek/ uprawnionych do nadawania stopni naukowych. Dziennik Rozkazów 1975 nr 4 poz. 37 s.67-69, (ma prawo przyznać; stopień naukowy doktora nauk ekonomicznych, doktora nauk humanistycznych oraz stopnia naukowego doktora habilitowanego nauk humanistycznych)

Structure

*Command *Teaching units **Faculty of Education and Politics **Historical and Political Department **Economic and Military Department **Military Institute of Law **Foreign Language Center *Center for Social Research *Branch of Organization and Training Planning *Science and Research Department *HR Department *Finance Department *school Divisions *Security Sub-units

Commanders

*Michał Stankiewicz (1951-1954) *Jan Hoffman (1954-1956) *Adam Uziembło (1956-1958) *Józef Urbanowicz (1958-1960) *Eugeniusz Kuszko (1960-1965) *Edward Braniewski (1965-1969) *Henryk Koczara (1969-1972) *Władysław Polański (1972-1989) *Mieczysław Michalik (1989-1990)

Notable Professors

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* Julian Polan-Haraschin * Stanisław Herbst *

* Jan Szczepański

Notable alumni

Janusz Bojarski Major General Janusz Bojarski (born 24 June 1956, Krasnosielc, Poland) General Officer of Polish Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, abbreviated ''SZ RP''; popularly called '' ...

References

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