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
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".
Endokomuna or komunoendecja, translated as Endo-Communism, is a term used to describe an ideology within the Polish United Workers' Party, the dominant political party of the Polish People's Republic
Polish United Workers' Party
…cosmopolitan, socialist subjects" and instead became "national, even nationalistic". This became particularly prominent after the rise of the Endo-Communist Partisans faction to power in the 1960s. Socialist Poland promoted the red-and-white Polish flag while sideling the communist red one, and stressed its…
Bolesław Piasecki, founder of PAX Association and one of the main representatives of Endokomuna.
Fragment of the exhibition devoted to the events of the 1968 Polish political crisis at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
Mieczysław Moczar, the leader of the Endo-Communist "Partisans" faction in 1965, at the height of his political power.
Jan Dobraczyński, an associate of Piasecki and Endecja activists who became the chairman of the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth.