Agonia „przewodniej siły”.Kryzys PZPR w latach osiemdziesiàtych Gdanska i Gdyni
The expiration of the “leading force”: The 1980s PUWP crisis in Gdańsk and Gdynia

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the situation within the Gdańsk party organization towards the end of the communist era based on previously unpublished documents preserved at the State Archives in Gdańsk and their Gdynia section, PUWP Central Committee materials held by the Archives of New Records, as well as secondary literature. This is a case study of the functioning of a local link of the PUWP. The author’s objective was to show selected aspects of the gradual disintegration since the 1980s of the communist party which had held almost absolute power in Poland for four decades. Most of the symptoms of the crisis enumerated in the article subsequently became visible on a national scale, greatly contributing to the fall of the regime in 1989.

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