People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Solidarity (Solidarność) 6 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 4 Freedom Union (Poland) 4 Democratic Union (Poland) 4 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 3 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Soviet Union state institutions 3 Poland state institutions 2 Polish People's Party (PSL) 1

All 18 affiliations

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan state institutions 1

China

Communist Party of China 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia state institutions 1 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 4 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 1

East Germany

East Germany state institutions 1

Poland

Poland state institutions 2 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1 Solidarity (Solidarność) 6 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Polish People's Party (PSL) 1 Freedom Union (Poland) 4 Democratic Union (Poland) 4

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 3 Soviet Union state institutions 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia state institutions 1 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1
Position(set)
Any Dissident 1 Agrarianism and peasant parties 1
Citizenship
Any Poland 1
Background
Any Poland 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Polish People's Party (PSL) Dissident Clear all
GlossaryPolish People's Party (PSL)

Roman Bartoszcze

Roman Bartoszcze
Polish People's Party (PSL) Dissident Polish Polish 1946–2015 ○ Natural causes

A peasant leader who carried Rural Solidarity into pluralist politics

On 19 March 1981 in Bydgoszcz, he was beaten and taken to hospital during the crackdown on the farmers’ demand to legalize Rural Solidarity.

Roman Bartoszcze was a Polish farmer and opposition leader who carried the struggle to legalize an independent farmers' union into the agrarian politics of the post-communist era. He led the 1981 Bydgoszcz occupation that secured Rural Solidarity's registration and was interned under martial law, then became the first leader of the revived Polish People's Party and ran for president in 1990, before losing the party leadership in 1991 and founding a smaller conservative peasant party.

Career timeline
  • 1969Chair of a local branch of the Union of Rural Youth
  • 1980Leader in the Rural Solidarity movement
  • 1981Leader of the national strike committee of Rural Solidarity
  • 1981–1983Internee under martial law
  • 1989Member of the Contract Sejm
  • 1990First leader of the Polish People’s Party
  • 1991Member of the first-term Sejm