Czy KPP była patriotyczna? Dyskusja w Wydziale Historii Partii wokół referatu Tadeusza Daniszewskiego na temat „sprawy niepodległości w ruchu robotniczym”
Was the Communist Party of Poland patriotic? Discussion at the Department of the History of the Party about Tadeusz Daniszewski’s report on “the question of independence within the workers’ movement”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of Tadeusz Daniszewski’s report entitled “The question of independence in the workers’ movement” and the discussion at the Department of the History of the Party that followed it in the autumn of 1946. The text pays attention to the importance of ideology in the early period of communist rule in Poland after the end of World War Two, and the continuity of old controversies within the broad workers’ movement concerning the attitude towards independence. It also brings up the problem of ideological evolution of pre-war communists faced with the need to legitimise the new political system.

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