Oskar Ryszard Lange was a Polish economist and diplomat. He is best known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialist systems and providing a model of market socialism. He responded to
Lange c. 1940s
Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Farbiarska 7 Street – place of birth
I Lyceum in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Lange's secondary school
Lange (center) with James E. Jackson (left) and Bolesław Gebert (right) at the 1959 Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party
The Polish United Workers' Party was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other legally permitted subordinate minor
Oskar R. Lange
…stay in the United States, Lange was an academic teacher and researcher in mathematical economics. Later in socialist Poland, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Lange was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki as the son of the Protestant manufacturer Artur Juliusz Lange and his wife…
Statute of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1956 edition
Crowds gathered in front of the main building of Warsaw University of Technology for the Unification Congress of the Polish Workers' Party and Polish Socialist Party (15 to 21 December 1948)
Bolesław Gebert addresses the Unification Congress of the PPR and PPS, December 1948
Władysław Gomułka, at the height of his popularity, on 24 October 1956, addressing hundreds of thousands of people in Warsaw, asked for an end to demonstrations and a return to work. "United with the working class and the nation", he concluded, "the Party will lead Poland along a new way of socialism".