People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity(set)
Any Political and party leadership 8 Government and administration 1 Security, intelligence and policing 1 Economy, finance and planning 1 Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Soviet Unionstate 170 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Hungarystate 10 Nazi party and regime 9 United States state institutionsstate 6 Russian Empirestate 6 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6 East Germanystate 6 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1

All 37 affiliations

Albania

Albaniastate 1

China

Communist Party of China 1 People’s Republic of Chinastate 3

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 3 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 1 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 1 East Germanystate 6

France

France state institutionsstate 4 French First Republic state institutionsstate 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 3 Nazi party and regime 9 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 2

Greece

Greece state institutionsstate 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 10 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 3

Latvia

Latvia state institutionsstate 1

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 1

Poland

Polandstate 2 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 1 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 1 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 1

Russia

Russian Empirestate 6 Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1 General Jewish Labour Bund 2 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 6

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 124 Soviet Unionstate 170

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 1

United States

United States state institutionsstate 6 Republican Party (United States) 3

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 1 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Poland 1
Background
Any Poland 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Security, intelligence and policing Polish Workers' Party (PPR) Clear all
GlossaryPolish Workers' Party (PPR)

Czesław Jan Kiszczak

Czesław Jan Kiszczak
Poland Communism Poland Poland 1925–2015 ○ Natural causes

Poland's interior minister who imposed martial law then co-chaired the Round Table

At the Round Table signing, Kiszczak declared: 'There are neither winners nor losers. The Polish nation is the victor.'

A soldier and communist politician of the Polish People's Republic, he was appointed interior minister in 1981 and, alongside Wojciech Jaruzelski, planned and executed martial law, leading the crackdown on the Solidarity trade union. In 1989, as the government co-chairman of the Round Table, he negotiated with Lech Wałęsa, paving the way for the re-legalization of Solidarity and partially free elections. After Solidarity's landslide victory, he was named prime minister but was forced to resign after only three weeks when Solidarity refused to join his government; he served briefly as deputy prime minister and interior minister in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's cabinet before retiring from political life.

Career timeline
  • 1973–1979Head, Second Directorate of the General Staff (military intelligence)
  • 1979–1981Commander, Internal Military Service (WSW)
  • 1981–1990Minister of internal affairs
  • 1981–1983Member, Military Council of National Salvation
  • 1982–1990Politburo member, Polish United Workers' Party
  • 1989Co-chairman, Round Table (government side)
  • 1989.08Prime minister-designate (failed to form a government)
  • 1989–1990Deputy prime minister and interior minister