Wojewódzka organizacja partyjna PZPR w Krakowie w Paêdzierniku 1956 i w okresie wyborów w styczniu 1957 roku
The Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) in October 1956 and during the elections of January 1957 in Cracow Voivodeship

Summary/Abstract: The time of the PRL’s political thaw began on a greater scale in December 1954. At the beginning of 1956, the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union acted as a catalyst for change not only in Poland but also in Hungary. However, the 1956 events in Poland reached their climax in the autumn. At the end of a dramatic meeting held between 19 and 21 October, the Seventh Plenum of PZPR Central Committee (during which Soviet delegation with Khrushchev came to Poland) on 21 October 1956 elected new members of the Politburo (the Political Bureau of the Polish United Workers’ Party) with its First Secretary – Władysław Gomułka.

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