Polish United Workers' Party
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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".
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 June 1989 to elect members of the Sejm and the recreated Senate, with a second round on 18 June. They were the first free and fair elections in the cou
Polish United Workers' Party
…1969 255 / 460 1st 1972 Edward Gierek 255 / 460 1st 1976 261 / 460 6 1st 1980 261 / 460 1st 1985 Wojciech Jaruzelski as part of PRON 245 / 460 16 1st 1989 22,734,348 (constituencies) N/A 173 / 460 72 1st 132,845,385 (in the national list) 45.82% See also Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party List…
A how-to-vote card distributed by Solidarity
"High Noon, June 4, 1989." Solidarity Citizens' Committee election poster by Tomasz Sarnecki.