Lokalne władze partyjno-państwowe wobec Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego 1944-1956
Local Authorities and Party of Power against the Catholic University of Lublin 1944-1956

Summary/Abstract: Since 1945 the operations of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) had been supervised by the structure of the Secret Political Police and since 1950 by the Department of Religion of the Presidium of the Provincial National Council in Lublin. The political evaluations of the functioning of the KUL were formed by the provincial and municipal structures of the Communist Party (PPR/PZPR). In bilateral contacts the formal partners of KUL were the city president and the departments of the Municipal National Council in Lublin. The Communists and the administratively subordinated government viewed the KUL through the prism of functioning of the state-owned Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS). KUL was accused of all political problems that appeared at the state university (UMCS) which was intended by the communist authorities to be the showcase of the city. Major regional activists of the Communist Party in 1948-1956, in all sorts of desiderata, were very unfavourable to KUL, hindered the lives of university workers and students. They even demanded the liquidation of a Catholic University of Lublin. This postulate was neither realized due to opposition of the Polish church authorities led by the Primate Stefan Wyszyński nor it gained approval in the leadership of the Communist Party in Warsaw.

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