People of the Revolution and the USSR
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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
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Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki
A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state
Political and party leadership · Poland
1899–1964
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Jakub Berman Jakub Berman
An architect of Stalinist power in Poland
Political and party leadership · Polish Workers' Party (PPR)
1901–1984
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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
1905–1982
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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
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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