Przywódcy polityczni Polski Ludowej. Analiza politologiczna

Abstract

The present article aims to analyze the political leaders of the People’s Republic of Poland from the point of view of the adopted criteria of leadership qualities, strength of influence and range of influence. Adopting the above three assumptions as determinants of leadership, we have serious problems when we want to analyze the political scene in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland, in particular leadership in the context of the position of the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the State Council. These two positions together with the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) were distinguished in the decree on salary as the highest “political and state governing positions”. When the position of the Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Council were aggregated with the position of the First Secretary of the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR) or of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR), then one could talk about such leadership which fulfilled all four attributes of leadership. But in another case, the position of the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the State Council in the Polish political system in the People’s Republic of Poland did not have a strategic character. Such is our hypothesis which we aim to prove in the present article (with the exception of two cases). The First Secretaries, in our theoretical approach, are leaders except for one case (B. Bierut, who was totally controlled by Joseph Stalin).