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Polish United Workers' Party
Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza
First leader Bolesław Bierut
Last leader Mieczysław Rakowski
Founded 16–21 December 1948
Dissolved 27–30 January 1990
Headquarters Nowy Świat 6/12,
00-497 Warsaw
Youth wing Polish Socialist Youth Union
Membership (1970s) 3,500,000
Ideology Communism,
Marxism-Leninism
Political position Far-left
International affiliation Kominform
Official colors Red
The Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP, Polish: Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza - PZPR) was the Communist party which governed the People's Republic of Poland from 1948 to 1989. Ideologically it was based on the theories of Marxism-Leninism.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 The Party's Program and Goals
2 The history of the PUWP
2.1 Establishing and Sovietisation period
2.2 Gomułka's autarchic communism
2.3 Gierek's economic opening
2.4 Jaruzelski's autocratic rule
2.5 Dissolution of the PUWP
3 Party Congresses
4 Building
5 Party leaders
6 Leading figures of the PUWP
7 Notable politicians after 1989
7.1 Presidents
7.2 Prime ministers
7.3 European Commissioners
8 See also
9 Notes
10 External links
[edit] The Party's Program and GoalsUp until 1989 the PUWP held dictatorial powers (the amendment to the constitution of 1976 mentioned "a leading national force"), and controlled an unwieldy bureaucracy, the military, the secret police, and the economy. Its main goal was to create a Communist society and help to propagate Communism all over the world. On paper, the party was organised on the basis of democratic centralism, which assumed a democratic appointment of authorities, making decisions, and managing its activity. Yet in fact, the key roles were played by the Central Committee, its Politburo and Secretariat, which were subject to the strict control of the authorities of the Soviet Union.[citation needed] These authorities decided about the policy and composition of the main organs; although, according to the statute, it was a responsibility of the members of the congress, which was held every five or six years. Between sessions, party conferences of the regional, county, district and work committees were taking place. The smallest organizational unit of the PUWP was the Fundamental Party Organization (FPO), which functioned in work places, schools, cultural institutions, etc.
The main part in the PUWP was played by professional politicians, or the so-called "party's hard core", formed by people who were recommended to manage the main state institutions, social organizations, and trade unions. In the crowning time of the PUWP's development (the end of ‘70s) it consisted of over 3.5 million members. The Political Office of the Central Committee, Secretariat and regional committees appointed the key posts not only within the party, but also in all organizations having ‘state’ in its name – from central offices to even small state and cooperative companies. It was called the nomenklatura system of the state and economy management. In certain areas of the economy, e.g. in agriculture, the nomenklatura system was controlled with an approval of the PUWP and by its allied parties, the United People's Party (agriculture and food production), and the Democratic Party (trade community, small enterprise, some cooperatives). After martial law, the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth was founded to organize these and other parties.