| dc.description.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). | en |
