Krakowska PZPR w okresie „małej stabilizacji”
Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (2012), pages: 85-105
Publication date: 2012-06-30
Abstract
The Kraków structure of PZPR (Polish United Workers’ Party) was among
the most important in Poland. October 1956 brought about signifi cant personal
movements within the Kraków branch of the party, a large group of its leaders
being dismissed together with the fi rst secretary of KW (Voivodeship Committee) Stanisław Brodziński, as well as many persons with roots in KPP (the pre-war
Communist Party of Poland). For a longer time, until 1968, the party was not
affected by any major crisis. From the beginnings of the 1960s, in the assessed
voivodeship the numbers of party members and candidates rose importantly, from
about 61,000 (in 1959) to over 110,000 (in 1969). Some of the old worthies
(like Zofia Zemanek) disagreed with their removal to the margins of social life,
subsequently they found a field of activity in the TPPR (Polish-Soviet Friendship
Society). Also, the influence of activists who had emerged in the aftermath of
October 1956, was successfully neutralised and weakened (Bernard Tejkowski,
Marek Waldenberg, Zbigniew Jakus). The party certainly took advantage of the
period of relative social calm, to stabilise its organisational/territorial structure
with District, Municipal, City District, Plant and Basic Party Committees. The
most important tool to exercise power used by the Kraków branch of PZPR, was
the party apparatus and the system of “nomenklatura” (ruling class) enabling to
create and control personnel policy in administration, economy, etc. The Kraków
party was led in the assessed period by Bolesław Drobner, Lucjan Motyka and
Czesław Domagała. Analysis of the regional structures of Poland’s communist party
is an important, required direction of research.
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