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15 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Bolesław Bierut Bolesław Bierut Stalin's most trusted East European proxy, architect of Poland's Stalinist system and guardian of the Oder–Neisse border Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1892–1956
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
Jakub Berman Jakub Berman An architect of Stalinist power in Poland Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1901–1984
Władysław Gomułka Władysław Gomułka The national communist who returned in the Polish October of 1956 to test a 'Polish road to socialism' Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1905–1982
Edward Mieczysław Ochab Edward Mieczysław Ochab The transitional First Secretary of 1956 who turned Khrushchev's Secret Speech into a mass document and then yielded power to Gomułka Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1906–1989
Isaac Deutscher Isaac Deutscher Marxist historian of Trotsky's definitive biography, who coined the 'non-Jewish Jew' Scholarship and theory · Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1907–1967
Adam Rapacki Adam Rapacki A diplomat who widened room for negotiation amid East-West tension Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions 1909–1970
Piotr Jaroszewicz Piotr Jaroszewicz The premier of technocratic growth Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1909–1992
Józef Cyrankiewicz Józef Cyrankiewicz A resistance survivor who became a guardian of the system Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1911–1989
Roman Fidelski Roman Fidelski The minister whose broken promise sparked the Poznań Uprising Industry and production · Poland state institutions 1912–1988
Edward Gierek Edward Gierek First Secretary who led a decade of Western-credit modernisation: only for debt and Solidarity to bring the curtain down Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1913–2001
Marian Rybicki Marian Rybicki A legal functionary who defined order against a workers’ revolt Law and justice · Poland state institutions 1915–1987
Józef Światło Józef Światło Deputy head of Poland’s security Department X whose 1953 defection and broadcasts exposed the ministry’s torture and purges Security, intelligence and policing · Poland state institutions 1915–1994
Mieczysław Zygmunt Jagielski Mieczysław Jagielski A party official who contained crisis through concessions Economy, finance and planning · Poland state institutions 1924–1997
Czesław Jan Kiszczak Czesław Jan Kiszczak Poland's interior minister who imposed martial law then co-chaired the Round Table Security, intelligence and policing · Poland state institutions 1925–2015