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Communist Party of Poland

Communist Party of Poland

Political party in PolandCommunist Party of Poland Komunistyczna Partia PolskiFounded1918Dissolved1938Merger ofPPS–LSDKPiLSucceeded byPPRNewspaperSztandar SocjalizmuYouth wingYoung Communist League of PolandIdeologyCommunismPolitical positionFar-leftInternational affiliationCommunist InternationalColoursRedPolitics of PolandPolitical partiesElections The interwar Communist Party of Poland (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) was a communist party active in Poland during the Second Polish Republic. It resulted from a merger in December 1918 of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) and the Polish Socialist Party – Left (PPS – Left) into the Communist Workers' Party of Poland (Komunistyczna Partia Robotnicza Polski, KPRP). The communists were a small force in Polish politics. The Communist Party of Poland (until 1925 the Communist Workers' Party of Poland) was an organization of the radical Left. Following the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg, the party's aim was to create a Polish Socialist Republic, to be included in the planned Pan-European Commonwealth of Socialist States. The party did not support the formation of the Second Polish Republic in 19