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	Glossary of Organisations: So
		Victor Chernov was among the prominent theoreticians of the SR party.
		Soviets were representatives of workers, peasants and soldiers in a given locale (rural soviets were a mix of peasants and soldiers, while urban soviets were a mix of workers and soldiers).
		Workers felt completely powerless, while the peasantry was becoming increasingly ostracized from the Zemstvo.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/s/o.htm (3838 words)

	Polish United Workers' Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was a Polish communist party.
		It was the governing political party in communist-ruled People's Republic of Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers' Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regime's electoral defeat in 1989.
		In January 1990 the party reconstituted itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, SdRP), since April 1999 the principal constituent of the Alliance of the Democratic Left (Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, SLD).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PZPR (213 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wladyslaw Gomulka (Polish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A Polish nationalist, he was purged in 1949 for alleged sympathy with the Yugoslav Communist leader, Josip Broz Tito, and was arrested in 1951.
		In Oct., 1956, on the wave of Polish resentment of USSR domination, Gomulka became first secretary of the party despite Soviet pressures.
		In 1971 he was suspended from the party's central committee and removed from the council of state.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gomulka.html (284 words)

	Polish Workers Begin Resistance to Open Capitalism
		Jaruzelski (left), of the revisionist Polish United Workers party and Lech Walesa, leader of Solidarity, have collaborated in forcing harsh austerity measures on the Polish workers.
		Polish agriculture, too, is showing the effects of the move to open capitalism.
		They want to bind the Polish workers openly to an organization like the AFL-CIO, that would play the role of "loyal opposition" (that is, selling out the workers on economic issues), while leaving the government free to rule on behalf of the capitalists.
	www.geocities.com /acero.rm/US/poland.htm (1775 words)

	Encyclopedia: Polish United Workers' Party
		The Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP; in Polish (polski, język polski) is the official language of Poland.
		Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a social and economic system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system.
		Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regime's electoral defeat in 1989.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Polish-United-Workers%27-Party (590 words)

	The Polish Crisis
		Eventually the Polish state was forced to concede and to conduct negotiations with the workers’ representatives.
		The Polish church had long been a partner with the aristocracy and the military in the repression and exploitation of both the workers and the peasants of Poland.
		Polish nationalism, however, can also have a temporarily progressive aspect insofar as it has the potential for unleashing an anti-Soviet movement that can draw the masses into conflict with the Polish state—a conflict that transcends its nationalist limitations and moves on to the broader social questions.
	www.slp.org /res_state_htm/polish_crisis81.html (2846 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Worker demands included improvements in work and pay schedules, fair production quotas (the current ones were much too high ot meet), a rise in the standard of living, decentralized management of factories, and recognition of workers' councils (Goodwyn, 52).
		Wladyslaw Gomulka, the elected head of the Polish United Workers Party in 1956, promised to meet these demands, but he was true communist at heart, and believed in central control and a one party state (MacShane, 33).
		Workers were urged to join trade unions and work actively to change the policies form the inside of these programs.
	users.owt.com /rpeto/projects/sol/hist.html (809 words)

	Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They argued that party organizations at individual enterprises should be empowered to nominate and elect their own delegates to assemblies at the regional level, which should then follow the same process to select delegates for a national congress.
		Polish hardliners?) as a mechanism to spearhead a counterattack on the reform faction in the run-up to the party's Extraordinary Congress.
		Party officials were limited to two terms in office, individuals were prohibited from simultaneously holding top party and government positions (except in the case of the prime minister), and provision was made for the general use of secret ballots and multiple candidate slates.
	www.cia.gov /csi/books/poland/ch10.htm (5723 words)

	Polish History - Part 13
		As early as 1944, the Polish National Liberation Committee concluded an agreement with the USSR establishing the eastern border of Poland along the Curzon Line, confirmed by a treaty of August 16, 1945.
		Mikolajczyk counted on social support, but his party proved to be powerless in the face of violence and election-rigging by the communists in the referendum of 1946 and the parliamentary elections of 1947.
		In hailing the Pope, Polish society, divided by a ban on the establishment of independent social organizations, recovered its unity and its sense of dignity.
	www.poloniatoday.com /history13.htm (1995 words)

	Stalinists/Solidarnosc/IMF Attack Workers - Polish Powderkeg
		When Polish voters massively repudiated the PUWP in favor of Solidarnosc in the elections last June, the stage was set for a round of parliamentary jockeying, which concluded with the appointment of a long-time Catholic activist, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, as prime minister of a Solidarnosc-led coalition government.
		The Polish revolutionary socialist tradition is represented by the heroic figures of Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches, who founded the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), and fought at the side of the Polish workers against Czarism during the revolution of 1905.
		Notwithstanding the rapprochement between Polish Stalinism and Solidarnosc, the PUWP is still indispensable to the Kremlin as a guarantor of Poland’s adherence to the Warsaw Pact.
	www.bolshevik.org /1917/no7/no07pol.html (4934 words)

	Polish Post-War Feature-Film 1945-1995 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The worker, a representative of the class which was supposed to defeat the capitalistic tyrants (the dictatorship of the proletariat), filled with ideals of efficient work for the good of society and country, and of fighting for the victory of socialism all over the world, appeared frequently on the screen.
		This film presenting the fall of Gierek's era and the birth of the Independent Workers Union "Solidarity" was made by the artist using both the "strategy of the psychotherapeutist" and that of the "clairvoyant," since he questioned the indissoluble nature of the social agreement signed by the government with workers.
		The Polish Underground Army of the Resistance Movement during the Nazi occupation whose commander-in-chief was in exile in England.
	www.finearts.uwaterloo.ca /juhde/micz952.htm (5278 words)

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		Workers sent in food to the students, but did not support them by coming out on strike because their economic situation was fairly good.
		A police officer lost his nerve and shot one of the workers; the worker's colleagues set fire to the building, and the staff had to be evacuated from the roof by helicopter.
		It was a Catholic movement because 98% of the Polish population was Catholic.
	www.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect18a.htm (12245 words)

	Poland: Behind the Crisis (1982) : Introduction
		The U.S. ruling class and its sycophants have hailed the Polish protests and wildly acclaimed the workers' strikes (the Polish workers' strikes, that is, not the strikes of U.S. workers!).
		From his analysis it is clear that the Polish United Workers Party leadership could have called upon the strikers to fight the Western banks as well as to check the capitalist tendencies in the countryside.
		The Pope and the Polish Cardinal are their political guiding stars, the bitterly anti-Soviet and vulgarly anti-Leninist Solzhenitsyn is their ideologist while the Rockefellers, the Mellons, the Morgans, the Krupps, the Flicks and the other imperialist bankers are their off-stage puppet-masters.
	www.workers.org /marcy/cd/sampol/polish/polish00.htm (1557 words)

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		In December 1948, the communist Polish Workers Party was united with the Polish Socialist Party to form the Polish United Workers Party.
		PPS is the Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna).
		PZPR is the Polish United Workers Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza).
	members.home.nl /bnieborg/series/0482.html (85 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Poland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Under pressure to reform from the Gorbachev government in the Soviet Union, the Polish government lifted its ban on Solidarity in April 1989, restored rights to the Catholic Church, ended state control of the media, and implemented a new pluralist constitution.
		Parties' and coalitions' influence and voter support are fluid and unstable.
		The Democratic Left Alliance (an outgrowth of the former Polish United Workers' Party that was the ruling party before 1989) increased its influence in the Sejm from 33% to nearly 50% in four years' time.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Pol1.htm (692 words)

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		Despite the predictions of sociologists, who pointed to the alienation of workers from organized religion in industrialized countries, the Polish workers remained loyal to the Catholic church because it was part of Polish national identity and opposed communism.
		One of the latter was for a monument to the workers killed in Gdansk in December 1970.
		Workers tried to offer passive resistance, but army units surrounded the factories and mines while special riot troops, the hated ZOMO (Polish acronym for the Motorized Units of the Citizens' Militia), used force to disperse the workers.
	web.ku.edu /~eceurope/communistnationssince1917/ch8.html (20176 words)

	Poland's Communist Party: Its History, Character and Composition
		As to the role of the PPS, the majority faction of the Polish CP made a "rightist" error, for they said that this role was double-edged, that Is to say in order to have the masses on their side, Social1sts had to use some slogans which, objectively speaking, act in favor of the revolution.
		The principle of "proletarian dictatorship" was expressed by the Party, the administrative organ of the state was embodied in the KM (which took over the functions of a parliament and a government at the same time) while its armed power was to be the AL ("People's Army").
		The Party has merely ridden itself of corrupt and passive elements although about 14 per cent of those purged were "removed" for various offenses "against the policy of the Party" and 792 persons were expelled for the "spreading of views and for conducting activities at variance with the Party line".
	www.osa.ceu.hu /files/holdings/300/8/3/text/40-2-53.shtml (10118 words)

	Polish People’s Party (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 1933 elections to the Polish Parliament, the Sejm, he was elected an MP representing his party, the PSL Piast.
		As Chairman of the Polish Peasants' Party, he launched a political struggle with the communist party and its political allies.
		When passing into opposition to the Polish Workers' Party and the communist Government, the Polish Peasants' Party endured all the ensuing consequences.
	www.psl.org.pl /english/miko.php (1085 words)

	Cyrankiewicz, Józef on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Active in the Polish resistance after the German invasion in 1939, he was arrested in 1941 and spent the remainder of the war in concentration camps.
		He was a member of the Polish Socialist party from 1932 and became secretary-general of its central executive committee in 1946.
		Upon the formal merger of the Socialists and Communists in 1948, Cyrankiewicz was named secretary of the central committee of the new United Polish Workers' party.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cyrankie.asp (392 words)

	Commonweal: Is Poland going Communist? Walesa's time was past - Lech Walesa
		In this context, it is worth noting that during the fall election campaign, Walesa threatened to dissolve the freely elected Polish parliament (Sejm) and consolidate its power in the presidency.
		Walesa boasted that he was not bound by his oath to uphold the Polish constitution because he had not bothered to read it.
		By contrast, Kwasniewski campaigned on the promise to respect the reforms of the past few years, work with the Sejm, and to accept a Walesa-backed concordat with the Vatican as long as it was negotiated openly and approved by the Sejm.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n22_v122/ai_17932524 (1179 words)

	Jacek Kuron (1934-2004) -- News & Letters, July 2004
		He was one of the founders of KOR (Committee to Defend Workers), an organization mostly of intellectuals that supported workers prosecuted after they had rebelled in Radom and Ursus in l976.
		KOR was critical in establishing close cooperation between workers and intellectuals, and led to the establishment of the mass union movement, Solidarity, which swept the nation in 1980.
		The Polish Communist Party recognized this challenge to its power and moved to crush Solidarity, declaring martial law in l981.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2004/July/Kuron_July2004.htm (341 words)

	ÚSTAV PRO SOUDOBÉ DĚJINY AV ČR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The author describes their internal structure and the importance of the authors of these records, as well as the growth in the number of records and classification, as well as the state in which they have been preserved, and he acquaints the reader with the contents of both archival collections.
		The PWP had a hegemony over the other parties, and its successor, the PUWP, acquired a virtual monopoly to which the state organs were subordinated.
		After the documents of the PUWP were transferred to the New Records Archive, the processing began of the remainder of the documents which had not been part of the previous central archive of the CC of the PUWP.
	www.usd.cas.cz /usdeng/janow.html (445 words)

	ÚSTAV PRO SOUDOBÉ DĚJINY AV ČR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Records of the Central Committees of the Polish Workers' Party, 1944-48, and of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1948-90, in the New Records Archive
		This ‘Polish’ issue of Soudobé dějiny is the result of close collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary History, at the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Political Studies, at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
		The Polish editors of this, the second issue of Soudobé dějiny for 1997, are Krystyna Kersten, Andrzej Paczkowski and Krzysztof Persak – all senior researchers in the Institute of History and the Institute of Political Studies (both of the Polish Academy of Sciences).
	www.usd.cas.cz /usdeng/uce642.html (377 words)

	Records from the Central Military Archives in Warsaw (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		In connection with a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Library of Congress is receiving microfilm of declassified records from the Central Military Archives (Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe, CAW) in Warsaw covering the early years of the Cold War, primarily 1945-50.
		Statistical analysis of the noncommissioned officer corps of the Polish Army.
		Polish Attache at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington/ Affairs of the Foreign Military Section.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/archiwum.html (2618 words)

	President of The Republic of Poland - Wojciech Jaruzelski
		Jaruzelski did not find his way to the Polish Army in the USSR being formed by General Wladyslaw Anders; he enlisted with the forces being organised by the communist Union of Polish Patriots.
		In 1960-1965 he was Chief of Central Political Board of the Polish Military, Chief of General Staff in 1965-1968 and at the same time from 1962 until 1968 the Deputy Minister of National Defence.
		In 1968 Jaruzelski became Minister of National Defence; he was responsible for participation of the Polish Peoples’ Army in the invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968); accused of complicity in the bloody quashing of workers’ protests on the Coast (1970).
	www.president.pl /x.node?id=477 (404 words)

	H-Net Review: Deborah J. Cahalen on Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists 1945-1950 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the one hand, he deconstructs the "state" and the "party" to show how the many layers of bureaucracy held conflicting interests and positions, illuminating the inner workings of what seemed to be a monolithic totalitarian system under Stalinism.
		Kenney shows how workers incorporated the new rhetoric of the communist state into their protests, however, subverting the ideological appeals of the state and forcing officials to take action to alleviate conditions.
		The city was rebuilt as Polish, but due to the lack of community solidarity among workers there was markedly less resistance to communist policies, particularly in the form of strikes.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3446875567050 (877 words)

	Marek Borowski - Speaker of Polish Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1967 and 1968 he was President of the Academic Sports Association of the Warsaw School of Planning and Statistics, and led the school's volleyball team.
		As a political trouble-maker he was excluded from the United Polish Workers' Party with an administrative punishment (a reprimand with a warning).
		Party affiliation: 1967-68 and 1975-90 member of the United Polish Workers' Party.
	www.poland-embassy.si /eng/politics/borowskiang.htm (437 words)

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		The People’s Republic was established in February 1947 with the Polish Workers’ Party, which would later join with the Polish Socialist Party to become the Polish United Workers’ Party, in control.
		In 1980, the Polish government has once again attempted to raise food prices and has been met with strikes across Warsaw led by Solidarity, the huge non-governmental union led by Lech Walesa.
		Daud was unable to quell the two sides and in April 1978, he was removed from power in a coup by leftist military officers who installed the leader of the PDPA, Noor Muhammad Taraki, as the new president.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/CIE/ModelUN05/HSC2.doc (1110 words)

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