Partia zjednoczona czy podzielona? Różne nurty PZPR w ostatniej dekadzie PRL
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Autor:
Gasztold-Seń, Przemysław
Źródło: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. 132, Studia Politologica 10 (2013), s. [174]-192
Język: pl
Data: 2013
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The article describes the fractions and trends that functioned in the Polish United Workers’
Party in the 1980s. Creation of Independent Self-governing Trade Union “Solidarity” in 1980
and the political crisis connected with the event led to the loosening of the party’s discipline.
Groups with a different point of view on the then political and economic situation started
to develop. The most recognized fractions included the members of the party that were
associated with dogmatism and those associated with liberalism. The former, also known as
“hard-headed”, pronounced for dealing with “Solidarity” in a quick and forceful manner, they
criticised the followers of Stanisław Kania and gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski for their amicability
and took advantage of the verbal and material support of the Soviet Union, German Democratic
Republic and Czechoslovakia. Their aim was to seize the power in the party. The liberals who
were concentrated in the horizontal structures, on the other hand, strived for a reform of
the Polish United Workers’ Party that would involve democratisation of the decision-making
process. They were also more willing to dialogue with the opposition than the “hard-headed”
were. The imposition of the martial law pacified “Solidarity” and was the onset of clearing the
ranks of the party. Fraction activity became forbidden and the most important members of
the dogmatic movement were gradually losing their posts and influences.