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People

Activity

Any Political and party leadership 24 Government and administration 8 Military command 8 Security, intelligence and policing 2 Diplomacy and international organization 3 Economy, finance and planning 2 Industry and production 1 Social movements and organizing 18 Scholarship and theory 2 Literature and arts 2 Religion 2 Law and justice 2

Affiliation

Most people

Any Poland state institutions 22 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 19 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 12 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 7 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 6 Freedom Union (Poland) 5 Democratic Union (Poland) 4

All 13 affiliations

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1

Poland

Poland state institutions 22 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 19 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 7 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 12 Polish People's Party (PSL) 3 Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 6 Freedom Union (Poland) 5 Democratic Union (Poland) 4

Position

Any Counter-revolutionary forces 7 Socialist-bloc reform leader 12 Dissident 13 Non-Bolshevik socialists 1 Marxism and communism 15 Agrarianism and peasant parties 1 Nationalism 1

Citizenship(set)

Any Poland 55 Soviet Union 32 Germany 2 Russia 2 United Kingdom 2 United States 2 Israel 1

Background(set)

Any Poland 55 Belarus 1

Era

Any

People of the wider world

The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1 The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 12 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 41 Scholars of this history1892–현재 1

Citizenship: Poland Background: Poland Clear all

55 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Jarosław Dąbrowski Jarosław Dąbrowski Organiser of the Polish rising of 1863 who became a general of the Commune and fell at Montmartre in Bloody Week Military command 1836–1871
Lucjan Żeligowski Lucjan Żeligowski Polish general who seized Vilnius in a staged 'mutiny' and set up Central Lithuania Military command · Poland state institutions 1865–1947
Józef Piłsudski Józef Piłsudski The soldier-politician who began as a socialist, became Head of State of reborn Poland, broke the Red Army's westward drive at Warsaw in 1920, and later ruled through a coup-built authoritarian regime Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1867–1935
Stanisław Grabski Stanisław Grabski An Endecja theorist who pressed for a Polish nation-state Political and party leadership · Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 1871–1949
Jan Dąbski Jan Dąbski A peasant-movement diplomat who shaped the Riga peace Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions 1880–1931
Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return Military command · Poland state institutions 1881–1943
Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski A military leader who shaped Poland's independence struggle and armed forces in exile Military command · Poland state institutions 1885–1969
Edward Raczyński Edward Raczyński An aristocratic diplomat who preserved Poland’s diplomatic continuity in exile Diplomacy and international organization · Poland state institutions 1891–1993
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
Stefan Rowecki Stefan Paweł Rowecki An underground commander who grasped Tempest's political conditions Military command · Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) 1895–1944
Antoni None Chruściel Antoni Chruściel The Home Army commander who organized and launched the uprising Military command · Poland state institutions 1895–1960
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski The Home Army commander whose decision led to both the uprising and its surrender Military command · Poland state institutions 1895–1966
Aleksander Zawadzki Aleksander Zawadzki A communist leader who helped shape postwar Poland's state Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1899–1964
Michał Kalecki Michał Kalecki The Marxist macroeconomist who formalized effective demand before Keynes Scholarship and theory 1899–1970
Stanisław Hejmowski Stanisław Hejmowski The lawyer who confronted state violence Law and justice 1900–1969
Stanisław Mikołajczyk Stanisław Mikołajczyk An agrarian statesman who negotiated between the government-in-exile and Stalin Political and party leadership · Polish People's Party (PSL) 1901–1966
Stefan Wyszyński Stefan Wyszyński The archbishop who defended the Church's autonomy under communism Religion 1901–1981
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
Roman Brandstaetter Roman Brandstaetter A writer who joined Jewish and Catholic memory and organized public remembrance Literature and arts 1906–1987
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
Stefan Staszewski Stefan Staszewski The PZPR Warsaw first secretary whose unauthorized print run of 15,000 copies broke Khrushchev's Secret Speech out of party control 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
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Jan Nowak-Jeziorański A Polish courier who connected resistance, exile, and radio Literature and arts 1914–2005
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
Karol Józef Wojtyła Karol Józef Wojtyła A global pope from behind the Iron Curtain Religion 1920–2005
Wojciech Jaruzelski Wojciech Jaruzelski Poland's leader between martial law and the Round Table Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1923–2014
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
Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski Poland's last communist prime minister, rejected by voters in the 1989 election Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1926–2008
Tadeusz Mazowiecki Tadeusz Mazowiecki Catholic intellectual of Solidarity who became the Eastern Bloc's first non-communist prime minister Government and administration · Poland state institutions 1927–2013
Stanisław Kania Stanisław Kania A party leader who lost power while seeking compromise Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1927–2020
Stanisław Matyja Stanisław Matyja The carpenter who became the unofficial leader of Poznań June Social movements and organizing 1928–1985
Anna Walentynowicz Anna Walentynowicz From fired shipyard worker to 'mother of independent Poland' Social movements and organizing · Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 1929–2010
Jacek Jan Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń A dissident socialist who linked workers’ self-management to civic solidarity Social movements and organizing · Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 1934–2004
Andrzej Gwiazda Andrzej Gwiazda An uncompromising organiser of August Solidarity Social movements and organizing · Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 1935–
Marian Jurczyk Marian Jurczyk A shipyard leader caught between two landmark agreements Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1935–2014
Tadeusz Rudolf Fiszbach Tadeusz Fiszbach A reform-minded party official caught between control and negotiation Political and party leadership · Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 1935–
Jan Ludwiczak Jan Ludwiczak The union leader whose arrest sparked the Wujek strike Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1937–2023
Zdzisław Kurowski Zdzisław Kurowski A party cadre shaped by the youth movement Political and party leadership · Poland state institutions 1937–
Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa Electrician who became president as the leader of Solidarity Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1943–
Jan Rulewski Jan Rulewski A Solidarity leader beaten while linking workers’ and farmers’ demands Social movements and organizing · Solidarity (Solidarność) 1944–
Adam Michnik Adam Michnik The dissident strategist who negotiated a peaceful transition with communist power Social movements and organizing · Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 1946–
Roman Bartoszcze Roman Bartoszcze A peasant leader who carried Rural Solidarity into pluralist politics Political and party leadership · Polish People's Party (PSL) 1946–2015

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