Training of local communist cadres in Poland in 1975-1990. An analysis based on the archives of the Bialskopodlaski province
Training of local communist cadres in Poland in 1975-1990. An analysis based on the archives of the Bialskopodlaski province

Summary/Abstract: Participation in the ideological and political training of the communist party was one of the fundamental duties for its members and individual organizations. Its primary goal was to maintain the proper ideological level of members, create a scheme for promotion in the party’s hierarchy and indirectly, to gradually increase the party’s influence on society. A training system was permanent, applicable to everyone and perpetual to shape and consolidate a uniform communist mentality, along with faithfulness and dedication to the organization. It was not only a way to improve the qualifications necessary for party and bureaucratic work, but above all to maintain party activists in constant ideological readiness. The forms of communist training, which were conducted in voivodeship party structures in Poland in 1975-1990, such as candidates’ training, mass training, activists’ training along with the Evening University of Marxism-Leninism, circle training, lecturers’ training, prove that the communist party attached great significance to this aspect at that time.

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