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Communism in Poland can trace its origins to the late 19th century: the Marxist First Proletariat party was founded in 1882. Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy , SDKPiL) party and the publicist Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911) were ...
The History of Poland since 1863. Cambridge U. Press, 1980. 494 pp. Leslie, R. F. (1956). Polish politics and the Revolution of November 1830. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780837124162. Leslie, R. F. "Politics and economics in Congress Poland," Past and Present (1955) 8#1 pp. 43–63 in JSTOR; Lukowski, Jerzy and Zawadzki, Hubert. A Concise History ...
The communist Polish United Workers' Party dissolved itself on 29 January 1990 and transformed itself into the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. [ 45 ] In 1990, Jaruzelski resigned as Poland's president and was succeeded by Wałęsa, who won the 1990 presidential elections [ 45 ] held in two rounds on 25 November and 9 December.
Around that time, Polish-communist civilian and military organizations opposed to the government, led by Wanda Wasilewska and supported by Stalin, were formed in the Soviet Union. [185] In July 1944, the Soviet Red Army and Soviet-controlled Polish People's Army entered the territory of future postwar Poland. In protracted fighting in 1944 and ...
The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Marxist–Leninist regime in Poland after the end of World War II.These years, while featuring general industrialization, urbanization and many improvements in the standard of living, were marred by early Stalinist repressions, social unrest, political strife and severe economic difficulties.
The Polish People's Republic was dissolved following the Revolutions of 1989 and the 1990 Polish presidential election, but the post-communist Third Polish Republic retained the 1952 constitution, with amendments, until the introduction of the current constitution on 17 October 1997, abolishing the socialist structure entirely and replacing ...
"Trybuna Ludu" published a statement signed by the central committees of the Polish United Workers' Party, the Communist Party of Poland. March 12: Death of Bolesław Bierut: March 20: The 6th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party was held, during which the memory of Bierut was honored June 28: Poznań 1956 ...
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012) Korbel, Josef. Poland Between East and West: Soviet and German Diplomacy toward Poland, 1919–1933 (Princeton University Press, 1963) online; Polonsky, A. Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939: The Crisis of Constitutional Government (1972) Remak, Joachim.