Puławians

Roman Zambrowski, a leader of the Puławy Street faction

The Puławians, or the Puławy faction[1] (Polish: Puławianie, frakcja puławska), as they came to be informally dubbed, comprised one of two principal communist groupings in Stalinist Poland which – in the spring of 1956, following the death of Bolesław Bierut – vied for power within the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party (the PZPR). The Puławians were known, during Poland's destalinization process, as reformists.

The other – a hardliner – grouping were dubbed the Natolinians (Natolińczycy), or the Natolin faction.[2][3]

The Puławy faction included many communists of Jewish extraction.[4] Among the most prominent were Roman Zambrowski[5] and Leon Kasman.[6]

The name "Puławy faction" came from the addresses of the Warsaw apartment buildings at Puławska Street 24 and 26, which had survived the Germans' planned destruction of Warsaw in World War II. The apartments were occupied mainly by high communist party officials,[7] including supporters of the Puławy Street faction. The Natolin Palace faction called them, by an uncomplimentary version of the word, “the Jews.”

Witold Jedlicki describes the struggle between the Natolinians and Puławians in his Simpletons and Yids.[8][9] (Chamy i Żydy)[10]

Some children of Puławians would later be involved in Poland's March 1968 polticial crisis.[11][further explanation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ Rowiński, Jan; Jaskułowski, Tytus; Międzynarodowych, Polski Instytut Spraw (2007). The Polish October 1956 in World Politics. PISM. p. 22. ISBN 978-83-89607-21-8.
  2. ^ Kozdra, Jan (2017). What Sort of Communists Are You?: The struggle between nationalism and ideology in Poland between 1944 and 1956. BookBaby Publishing. p. 176. ISBN 978-1925515657.
  3. ^ Davies, Norman (1981). God's Playground: A History of Poland. 1795 to the present. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198225928.
  4. ^ Komunizm w Polsce: zdrada, zbrodnia, zakłamanie, zniewolenie (in Polish). Kluszczyński. 2005. ISBN 9788374470292.
  5. ^ Gerrits, André (2009). The Myth of Jewish Communism: A Historical Interpretation. Peter Lang. ISBN 9789052014654.
  6. ^ Schatz, Jaff (1991). The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520071360.
  7. ^ Irwin-Zarecka, Iwona (1990-01-01). Neutralizing Memory: The Jew in Contemporary Poland. Transaction Publishers. p. 193. ISBN 9781412829526. Chamy i Żydy.
  8. ^ Gross, Jan Tomasz (2007). Fear: Anti-semitism in Poland After Auschwitz ; an Essay in Historical Interpretation. Random House Trade Paperbacks. p. 30. ISBN 9780812967463. Witold Jedlicki chamy i żydy.
  9. ^ Nowak, Jerzy Robert (1998). Zagrożenia dla Polski i polskości (in Polish). Inicjatywa Wydawn. "ad astra,". ISBN 9788387538873.
  10. ^ Jedlicki, Witold (1980). "Chamy" i "Żydy" (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Krąg.
  11. ^ ""Puławianie" i "natolińczycy"". Rzeczpospolita.
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