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	Coastal cities events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wladyslaw Gomulka's temporary political success could not mask the economic crisis into which the People's Republic of Poland was drifting.
		Gomulka believed that the agreement with West Germany had made him more popular, but in fact most Poles appear to have felt that since the Germans were no longer a threat to Poland, they no longer needed tolerate the Communist regime as a guarantee of Soviet support for the defense of the Oder-Neisse line.
		Gomulka's right-hand man, Zenon Kliszko, made matters worse by ordering the army to fire on the workers as they tried to return to their factories; he was afraid of sabotage.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Coastal_cities_events (418 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wladyslaw Gomulka (Polish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wladyslaw Gomulka[vwAdis´wAf gumoo´ku] Pronunciation Key, 1905–82, Polish Communist leader.
		In Oct., 1956, on the wave of Polish resentment of USSR domination, Gomulka became first secretary of the party despite Soviet pressures.
		From this post he dominated the Polish government, continuing close ties with the USSR but establishing greater freedom of action for Poland and bringing some social and economic liberalization.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gomulka.html (284 words)

	People's Republic of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gomulka, however, promised an end to police terror, greater intellectual and religious freedom, higher wages and the return of agricultural land to the peasants.
		Gomulka believed that the agreement with West Germany had made him more popular, but in fact most Poles appear to have felt that since the Germans were no longer a threat to Poland, they no longer needed tolerate the Communist regime as a guarantee of Soviet support for the defence of the Oder-Neisse border.
		Gierek, like Gomulka in 1956, came to power with a raft of promises that now everything would be different: wages would rise, prices would remain stable, there would be freedom of speech, those responsible for the violence at Gdynia and elsewhere would be punished.
	www.portaljuice.com /people_s_republic_of_poland.html (5399 words)

	Rozenbaum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gomulka made it clear that the anti-Zionist campaign would not be launched just to manifest Poland's peaceful intentions as it was the case with the propaganda campaign against the war in Indochina.
		It is possible that in addition to his initial goal Gomulka wanted to divert the attention of the masses from their miserable everyday life and the obvious tokenism of the new financial and economic reforms.
		The oppressive measures introduced by the Gomulka regime increased considerably the dissatisfaction with the once proudly proclaimed "Polish way to socialism." Intellectuals, students, and even members of managerial circles began to criticize the return to politically motivated trials based on the old Stalinist criminal code and on the application of unlawful means of investigation.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/sipa/REGIONAL/ECE/rozenbaum.html (5771 words)

	Poland Wladyslaw I - Find it on Coins-n-More.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wladyslaw Reymont … Wladyslaw Reymont was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924; Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont was born in Kobiele Wielke, a small town in …
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		Wladyslaw GomulkaWladyslaw Gomulka was born in Krosno, Poland, in 1905.
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	Post War Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wladyslaw Gomulka, leader of the Polish Worker's Party (Communist), became undisputed leader of Poland, then, in September 1948, Gomulka was dismissed.
		Gomulka managed to persuade Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, that he could control the situation, and so Soviet troops which were on stand by were not used (unlike in Hungary where the situation led to bloodshed in the Hungarian Uprising).
		Gomulka found himself under pressure from the repressive Nationalist "Partisan" faction, led by Mieczyslaw Moczar, and reluctantly had to "encourage" the Jews to emigrate (his own wife was Jewish).
	www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/PostWar.html (819 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Poland's Year of Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...Gomulka's desire to change the Sovietmodel economic system that had been imposed on Poland after 1949 was made clear on the very first day of his return to power...
		...Whereas Gomulka's predecessor, Bierut, tried to destroy, physically and morally, anyone who sought to express or influence the feelings and thoughts of the Polish nation independently of the regime, Gomulka tries to win his people over by persuasion, by convincing them that his policy is the only one practicable under present conditions in Eastern Europe...
		...And Gomulka closed his attack upon this particular form of spontaneous workers' democracy with an ominous warning: the Councils were creating a "favorable ground for the infiltration into its ranks of influences alien to the working class, and frequently even hostile to it...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V24I4P34-1.htm (4110 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Poland: The Party and the Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...Wladyslaw Gomulka HE MOST NOTABLE feature of the potical turbulence in Poland this year has been the purge of "Zionist" elements, who were blamed first for the student demonstrations in March, and subsequently for virtually all the ills plaguing the country...
		...The Gomulka center has even mounted a counter-offensive by proclaiming that revisionism, reaction, and nationalism are the main dangers to Poland, and by warning against "social demagogy" and a "simplified use of the concept of Zionism...
		...Gomulka was elected as Secretary General of the party, but it was the triumvirate of Bierut, Jakub Berman (in charge of the secret police and propaganda), and Hilary Minc (the economic overlord) which made the crucial policy decisions and controlled the dominant posts...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V46I3P58-1.htm (8438 words)

	Post-War Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gomulka was “invited” to Moscow to endorse the formation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, which he did in August (although all documentation was back-dated to July).
		Gomulka was permitted to return to power and take Poland along its own road to Socialism whilst, in return, Gomulka called for stronger political and military ties with the Soviet Union and condemned those who were trying to steer Poland away from the Warsaw Pact.
		Gomulka found his own position as leader was under threat from the repressive Nationalist “Partisan” faction, led by Mieczyslaw Moczar, but he was able to get Soviet backing by letting Polish armed forces take part in the Warsaw Pact repression of Dubcek’s attempt to create a more liberal situation in Czechoslovakia.
	www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/PostWarBios.html (4656 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Poland - 1948-1969
		Although Wladyslaw Gomulka established a Polish Road to Socialism, in deviation of the Soviet model, in 1956, and was perceived by the west as an antagonist of Moscow - this resulted in US bank loans to the Polish state - in terms of foreign policy Gomulka did not deviate from the Soviet course.
		Gomulka achieved his short-term goal of avoiding Poland turning into a second Hungary; with long-term consequences - the Poles living beyond their means - that would be burdensome for the future.
		Gomulka proclaimed a POLISH ROAD TO SOCIALISM; the political unrest that threatened and narrowly was avoided, had provided Gomulka with the opportunity to implement a socialist policy that considerably deviated from the Soviet model, to a larger extent than any other government within the Soviet bloc was permitted.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/poland194869.html (1371 words)

	Commanding Heights : Poland \| on PBS
		Gomulka promises a more "Polish road to socialism." His "Polish October" reforms curb secret police and free political prisoners, including now Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski.
		But Gomulka's reforms are about quelling opposition to the party, not displacing it.
		Their unrest brings Communist Party moderate Wladyslaw Gomulka to power and presages the powerful labor movement that will eventually topple Poland's Communist Party.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/pl/pl_full.html (4400 words)

	Wladyslaw Gomulka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gomulka was a member of the Polish Workers’ (later United Workers’) Party Central Committee from 1942 to 1949, a member of its Political Committee from 1944 to 1948, and general secretary from 1944 to 1949.
		In August 1956, he was readmitted into the Polish United Workers’ Party, and in October 1956, chosen at the 8th Plenary of the Central Committee as its first secretary again.
		During a 1970 demonstration in Gdansk against price increases, Gomulka ordered shots to be fired into the unarmed crowd and several people were killed.
	www.rev.hu /history_of_56/szerviz/kislex/biograf/gomulka_uk.htm (285 words)

	Poland
		The reform communists were already in touch with Wladyslaw Gomulka, supported by those leaders who cared little for Gomulka’s views but were now convinced that he must be brought back into the Central Committee as the last chance to halt the disintegration of the Party’s authority.
		Gomulka however held out for better terms: his restoration as First Secretary and the removal of his enemies from the Politburo.
		Gomulka had proved unshakeable, and the PUWP Politburo had continued to back him up...
	www.johndclare.net /cold_war_poland_1956.htm (906 words)

	1954, March 19. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Wladyslaw Gomulka, who had been arrested in 1951, and other Polish Communists were reported to have been freed and rehabilitated.
		Gomulka announced that Soviet troops stationed in Poland would return to their regular bases “within two days.” But the Soviet troop removal, which began on Oct. 25, did not include the three or four Soviet divisions from East Germany that had entered Poland a few days earlier.
		The Gomulka government decided to present the Soviet Union with a bill for Poland's fair share (15 percent) of the German reparations payments to the Soviet Union.
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	Letters: SR, September 2001
		That included Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was well aware of the situation in the countryside as well as of some of the activities of the NKVD within his own ranks.
		Gomulka was a curious case, although it is hard to agree with Professor Cienciala that he "was certainly not a puppet." As Peter Raina stressed in his often overlooked biography of Gomulka, the communist leader was as faithful a Stalinist as Tito, and for a longer period of time.
		As the recently published documents suggest, Gomulka was persecuted only to the extent that he was served plain bread instead of baguettes with his morning coffee.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/901/213letters.htm (1577 words)

	Poland Defining the Military's Postwar Role - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Incoming party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka skillfully negotiated Poland's position with the Soviets; backed by Poland's demonstrated willingness to defend itself, Gomulka was able to avert an invasion.
		Gomulka's government sought to consolidate PZPR control of military policy, which in the Stalinist years had been a tangled combination of informal Polish and Soviet lines of authority.
		Gomulka replaced departing Soviet commanders with Polish officers who had served with him in the wartime communist underground (as opposed to the Soviet-controlled Polish First Army) and with commanders who had prepared their troops to resist the threatened Soviet invasion in 1956.
	www.photius.com /countries/poland/national_security/poland_national_security_defining_the_militar~10536.html (1018 words)

	Poland
		In Warsaw, the Moscow communists led by Boleslaw Bierut rejected PPR leader Wladyslaw Gomulka’s “Polish road to socialism” which had adapted the Soviet model to Polish conditions.
		Collectivization was at first denied as being an aim of the government and was later introduced by the regime in Warsaw.
		Wladyslaw Gomulka dictated that he stood on the basis of individual peasant cultivation and rejected the collectivization of farms.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/Economics/Economic_History/Poland/ecohist_pol_sovtype.htm (1076 words)

	"The army will not follow orders..." - Civilization Fanatics' Forums
		Gomulka was an old-time Polish communist from before the war who was accidentally spared in 1938 when Stalin had the entire Polish Communist Party summoned to Moscow and executed, because he was sitting in a Polish prison at the time, ironically for communist party activities.
		Gomulka led the party to resistance during the war and emerged afterwards as a power in Poland, but Stalin naturally distrusted the one he’d missed in 1938 so in 1949 Gomulka was imprisoned on trumped-up charges.
		Wladyslaw Gomulka was a consummate politician and a major driving force behind the events of October 1956 in Poland; Imre Nagy was more of a professor personality type who spent most of the crisis reacting desperately to events in Hungary beyond his control.
	forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=58673 (4740 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Poland's Peculiar Dictatorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...B UT if Gomulka is determined not to give up power or share it with anyone, left or right, neither does he want any return to the former regime of fear and terror...
		...Gomulka's bridge to the people was the liberal intellectuals of his own party-writers, university teachers, journalists...
		...This is the greatest of all the truths about the Polish situation, and Gomulka uttered it once only, on the eve of the election (January 20, 1957) that returned him to power in defiance of the leadership of the other Communist countries, and against the opposition of the Polish party apparatus...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V28I1P42-1.htm (3669 words)

	Wladyslaw Gomulka
		Wladyslaw Gomulka was born in Krosno, Poland, in 1905.
		During the Second World War Gomulka was active in the resistance against the Germans and took part in the fighting in
		Gomulka was told that as long as the Polish government supported the Soviet Union in foreign affairs they could develop their own domestic policies.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /POLgomulka.htm (477 words)

	Find Free Essays on Eastern Europe and the USSR from 1980 to the Present.
		This in turn infuriated both Brezhnev and Gomulka; therefore, many Poles of Jewish origin were charged with "Zionism." The Minister of the Interior, Mieczyslaw Moczar (pron: Myechyslav Mochar) used this charge in 1967-68 to purge the administration and the academic community of "Zionists".
		Gomulka and most other party leaders in Warsaw were so out of touch with the workers -- whom they allegedly represented -- that they saw the revolt as a "counter-revolution" and decided to crush it with troops and special riot police.
		At that time, Gomulka released him, because the party needed the support of the Church to be accepted by the people..
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	Anna M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At this time, Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Secretary General of the Polish Workers’ Party (Communist), was talking of a "Polish Road to Socialism," and other E.E Communist leaders also expected to follow national paths to Socialism, that is, in accordance with their countries' interests and not by a wholesale copying the Soviet model.
		Gomulka's real offense, however, was his adherence to "national paths to communism," and therefore his opposition to Stalin’s policy of condemning and then ostracizing Yugoslavia.
		Nevertheless, Gomulka went on to be elected First Secretary of the UPWP that same day, while the Soviet delegation left Warsaw on the morning of October 20.
	raven.cc.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect17.htm (16911 words)

	Gomulka, Wladyslaw -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The Polish writer Wladyslaw Reymont is remembered especially for his epic novel Chl (The Peasants), a blend of naturalism and realism written almost entirely in rural dialect.
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	Poland
		Wladyslaw I of the Piast dynasty was crowned king of Poland in 1320.
		Among those jailed in the purge was Wladyslaw Gomulka, secretary general of the party and first deputy premier.
		Gomulka became the dominant figure in Poland, steering a careful course between pro-Soviet and nationalist sentiments and introducing limited political reforms.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/histories/history/hiscountries/P/poland.html (5524 words)

	Report of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gomulka, He was the leader of the Polish communist party, became the leader of Poland, In 1948, Gomulka was no longer the leader.
		Gomulka persuaded Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, that he would be able to control the situation.
		Gomulka returned to power and a relationship with the USSR began.
	shylar.com /jenkins/2002/poland2a (542 words)

	Learn more about Timeline of Polish history in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_polish_history.html (383 words)

	The 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka supported the position of Yugoslav leader Tito -- a commitment to communism, but independence from Moscow.
		After a tense standoff with Khrushchev, Gomulka agreed that Poland would remain a loyal member of the Warsaw Pact; in exchange, Khrushchev allowed Gomulka to remain in power, and to enact popular economic reforms.
		Gomulka remained in power in Poland for another 14 years.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/century/episodes/06/timelines/headlines/infoboxes/ebloc.html (192 words)

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