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List Of Polish Workers' Party Politicians
A list of notable Polish politicians and members of the defunct Polish Workers' Party (). B * Jakub Berman * Bolesław Bierut * Jerzy Borejsza F * Paweł Finder G * Władysław Gomułka H * Tadeusz Hołuj J * Mieczysław Jagielski * Piotr Jaroszewicz * Wojciech Jaruzelski * Stefan Jędrychowski * Franciszek Jóźwiak K * Stanisław Kania * Leon Kasman * Czesław Kiszczak * Zenon Kliszko * Władysław Kowalski * Leon Kruczkowski L * Józef Lewartowski M * Władysław Machejek * Stefan Michnik * Kazimierz Mijal * Hilary Minc * Mieczysław Moczar * Zygmunt Modzelewski * Bolesław Mołojec N * Zenon Nowak * Marceli Nowotko O * Edward Ochab P * Julian Przyboś * Janusz Przymanowski R * Michał Rola-Żymierski Michał Rola-Żymierski (; 4 September 189015 October 1989) was a Polish high-ranking Polish United Workers' Party, Communist Party leader, communist military commander and NKVD secret agent. He was appointed as Marshal of Poland, and served i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Władysław Kowalski (politician)
Władysław Kowalski (26 August 1894 – 14 December 1958) was a Polish communist politician, writer and journalist who served as the Minister of Art and Culture and the Sejm Marshal during the first postwar parliament Sejm of the Polish People's Republic (1947–1952) and, in his capacity as Sejm Marshal, ''ex officio'', as the acting head of state (Acting President of the State National Council) for one day (4–5 February 1947). He was also a publisher and writer. Kowalski was also known by the pseudonyms ''Sałas'', ''Bartłomiej Zarychta'' and ''Stanisławski''. Life Władysław Kowalski was born in a small village of Paprotnia near Rawa Mazowiecka (then Russian Empire, now east-central Poland) as a son of farm worker. Because of his family poverty, he graduated just three school grades and later became an autodidact. During World War I he fought in the Imperial Russian Army and later in the Puławy Legion. From 1918 to 1939 in the Second Polish Republic he was an activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Przyboś
Julian Przyboś (5 March 1901 – 6 October 1970) was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, one of the most important poets of the Kraków Avant-Garde. Life Przyboś was born in Gwoźnica near Strzyżów to a peasant family. From 1912, he attended the Konarski Secondary School in Rzeszów. A supporter of socialist ideals, in 1920 he volunteered for the Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War. In 1920–1923 he studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He was one of the contributors of '' Zwrotnica'', magazine of the avant-garde artists in Kraków. Przyboś worked as a teacher in Sokal (1923–1925), Chrzanów (1925–1927), and Cieszyn (1927–1939). In Cieszyn, he published his works in '' Zaranie Śląskie'' (Silesian Dawn) (1929–1938). He also published in many other magazines before and after World War II. In December 1939 Przyboś relocated to Lviv. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo, the Nazi German secret police. After World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab (; 16 August 1906 – 1 May 1989) was a Polish communist politician and top leader of Poland between March and October 1956. As a member of the Communist Party of Poland from 1929, he was repeatedly imprisoned for his activities under the Polish government of the time. In 1939 Ochab participated in the Defense of Warsaw but afterwards moved to the Soviet Union, where he became an early organizer and manager in the Union of Polish Patriots. In 1943, he joined General Berling's Polish Army on the Eastern Front as a political commissar and quickly advanced in its ranks. From 1944 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and a deputy in the State National Council. In 1945, he became minister of public administration and held the successive positions of propaganda chief in the PPR (1945–1946), chief of cooperative associations (1947–1948), and chief of the Association of Trade Unions (ZZZ) (1948–1949). From December 1948 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marceli Nowotko
Marceli Nowotko (real surname: Nowotka) (; pseudonyms: ''Marian'', ''Stary''; 8 July 1893, Warsaw – 28 November 1942, Warsaw) was a Polish communist activist and first secretary of the Polish Workers Party (PPR). Life and career Nowotko was born in to a large family of farm workers. He was a self-educated locksmith. He was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1916 and the Communist Party of Poland from 1918. He organised a soviet communist agency in Ciechanów in 1918 and was a member of the soviet intelligence in Łapy during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. He was a middle-ranking Communist Party of Poland (KPP) functionary between the wars, serving as a local party organiser and on the agriculture section of the central committee. From 1923 he was a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine. He fled from Rawicz prison to Soviet-occupied eastern Poland in September 1939 and once politically rehabilita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenon Nowak
Zenon Nowak (27 January 1905 – 21 August 1980) was a Communist activist and politician in the People's Republic of Poland. He was one of the members of the pro-Soviet Natolin faction of the PZPR Central Committee during the Polish October of 1956.Martin McCauley, Stephen Carter''Leadership and succession in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China.'' Page 45.''M.E. Sharpe''. Retrieved November 21, 2011. Awards and honors *: ** Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1964) ** Order of the Banner of Work, 1st class ** Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1975) ** Badge of the 1000th Anniversary of the Polish State (1966) *: ** Order of the October Revolution (1975) ** Order of Friendship of Peoples The Order of Friendship of Peoples () was an order of the Soviet Union, and was awarded to persons (including non-citizens), organizations, enterprises, military units, as well as administrative subdivisions of the USSR for accomplishments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolesław Mołojec
Bolesław Mołojec (pronounced ; born 9 February 1909, Henryków, Tomaszów Mazowiecki County – died 29 or 31 December 1942, Warsaw), known under '' noms de guerre'' "Edward" and "Długi", was a Polish communist activist and commander of International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. He served in the leadership of the Communist Party of Poland's (KPP) youth organization in 1935-1936; disciplined by the Soviet leadership in 1936, a fact that later counted in his favour after Stalinist authorities had purged KPP. Mołojec put himself in charge of the Polish Workers' Party after the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. He was assassinated by his own peers. Biography In his youth he studied and worked in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, he was also the organizer of anti-capitalist lectures and protests. Before World War II, Mołojec volunteered for the Polish units of the International Brigades. He took the ''nom de guerre'' "Major Edward", became prominent in the Dabrowski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Modzelewski
Zygmunt Modzelewski (15 April 1900 – 18 June 1954) was a Polish communist politician, professor, economist, and diplomat. Life and career Modzelewski was born in to the family of a railroad worker. He was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and Communist Party of Poland. From 1923 to 1937, he was a member of the French Communist Party and even joined its Central Committee. In 1937 he moved to the Soviet Union and was arrested by NKVD in the same year in the Great Purge. Despite torture he refused to give false confession and was released in 1939. During the Second World War he joined the Union of Polish Patriots and the Central Bureau of Polish Communists and became the first director of Polpress, a precursor to the Polish Press Agency. In May 1943 he was involved in the formation of the Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division in the camp in Seltsy. At the rank of captain he became a lecturer in the Political Section of the Divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieczysław Moczar
Mieczysław Moczar (; birth name Mikołaj Diomko, pseudonym ''Mietek'', 23 December 1913 – 1 November 1986) was a Polish communist politician who played a prominent role in the history of the Polish People's Republic The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), and also often simply known as Poland, was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. .... He is most known for his unorthodox, alternative socialist views attitude which influenced Polish United Workers' Party politics in the late 1960s. During this time, Moczar and his supporters challenged Władysław Gomułka's authority. Moczar was heavily involved in the 1968 Polish political crisis, March 1968 events in Poland against Polish Jews, in which he led the faction of hardliners inside the Communist Party. Biography Early life Moczar's father was Orthodox Belarusian and an activist of the Communist Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Minc
Hilary Minc (24 August 1905 – 26 November 1974) was a Polish economist and communist politician prominent during Stalinist Poland. Minc was born into a middle class Jewish family; his parents were Oskar Minc and Stefania née Fajersztajn. In 1921 Minc joined the Communist Party of Poland, which was later eliminated by the Comintern before World War II. He studied law and economics in Poland and France, where he obtained a doctorate before being expelled by the authorities in 1928. During World War II he was exiled in the Soviet Union, where he participated in the founding and activities of the Union of Polish Patriots. As an officer in the Polish People's Army, he fought on the Eastern Front and received military decorations, including the Virtuti Militari. Between 1944 and 1956, he was a member of the Politburo of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and then the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). Minc was a top-ranking member of Bolesław Bierut's political apparatus fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Mijal
Kazimierz Romuald Mijal (September 15, 1910 – January 28, 2010) was a Polish communist politician and dissident, best known for founding the illegal Communist Party of Poland (Mijal) in opposition to the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) in 1965. He was born in Wilków Pierwszy. Biography Born in to a poor peasant family, he Graduated from a Tradesmen's Association Commercial School in Warsaw. He was a sympathizer of the communist movement in Poland however did not join the Communist Party. After marrying the communist activist and painter Jadwiga Gniewkowska, Mijal became politically active during World War II and joined the Polish Workers' Party, collaborating with Paweł Finder, Marceli Nowotko and Bolesław Bierut. After the end of the war and the creation of the Polish People's Republic Mijal held various positions in the party and the state. He served as Mayor of Łódź, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, chief of the Bureau of the Council of Ministers, Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Michnik
Stefan Michnik (28 September 1929 – 27 July 2021) was a Ministry of Public Security (Poland), military judge of the Eastern Bloc, Soviet-dominated regime in People's Republic of Poland, post-World War II Poland, and a Captain (armed forces), captain in the communist Polish People's Army. He was involved in the politically-motivated arrest, political trial, trial, imprisonment and/or execution of a number of Polish anticommunism, anti-communist fighters and activists. Many of those persecuted by Michnik also fought against Nazi Germany during World War II, as members of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish resistance. After de-stalinization, Michnik went into exile in 1968, and had lived in Storvreta, Sweden. After the Revolutions of 1989, collapse of communism in Poland (1989), Michnik was formally implicated by the Polish justice system in Communist crimes (Polish legal concept), communist crimes relating to his tenure as a military judge. Life Stefan Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
