Dyrektorzy przedsiębiorstw i aparat partyjny. Przypadek Warszawy w latach 1949–1955
Managers of Enterprises and the Party Apparatus. The Case of Warsaw, 1949–1955

Summary/Abstract: In communist Poland enterprises, along with the entire economy, were subordinates to the state administration, thus their managers to a large decree became civil servants. Yet the economy was also of interest to the party and its apparatus, which in its capacity as state-party supervised the activities of factories and its managers and through the nomenklatura system, had a decisive influence over staffing of management posts in enterprises. In this article the author, basing on materials from the archives of the Warsaw Committee of the PUWP, examines the relations between the party apparatus and enterprise managers in the first half of the 1950s. On one hand analyzing the dependence of managers on PZPR functionaries, and on the other examining the level of autonomy managers actually had and whether they exploited the party apparatus to further their own goals.

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