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Zapiski Historyczne
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2019
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vol. 84
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issue 2
205-234
EN
The article constitutes an attempt to initiate research on the attitude of the Toruń community towards the political authorities after the martial law, the basic subject of which is not the opposition but a broad cross-section of society. The aim of the article is to examine the moods and behavior of the personnel of Toruń’s enterprises, with special emphasis on employees not belonging to the political opposition. The files of the archival collection of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party in Toruń and selected underground magazines were used for the research. The conclusions reveal the ambiguous and variable, if not radical, attitude of Toruń’s workers to the authorities in the discussed period, and the fact that dissatisfaction was based mainly on the economic grounds.
Zapiski Historyczne
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2012
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vol. 77
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issue 2
57-78
EN
The Polish United Workers’ Party was a mass political organization which controlled many aspects of social life in Poland. It tended to be a “superb supervisor” of the life of the whole society. To be able to manage the country and its own personnel (full-time workers), the party had to have its own finances. The budget of the Polish United Workers’ Party was constructed from the perspective of expenses. Budget income was adjusted to spending. Throughout all the period of the party’s existence, its finances remained beyond the state and social control. It is important as it would have been impossible to cover all the expenses of the party without using the state’s financial resources. The aim of the article is to make the reader familiar with unknown facts connected with the finances of the Polish United Workers’ Party. The article deals with the formation of finances of the Regional Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party in Gdańsk in the first years of its existence. It describes the first budget (1949) until the “reform” of the state’s finances in 1950. The starting point for research is the analysis of the condition of the finances of the Regional Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party and the Regional Committee of the Polish Socialist Party in Gdańsk in 1948. In the process of “unification” the assets of the Polish Socialist Party were taken over by the Polish United Workers’ Party. Next, I describe the structure of expenses and revenues of the party. Expenses connected with the personnel of the Regional Committee are particularly interesting, as is the fact that the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party (in fact – the state’s budget) partly financed the needs of Gdańsk’s party organization. Subsequently, I show that the hierarchy of the importance of individual committees affected their staff ’s remuneration. It concerned mainly the most important people in the committee, but also technical workers. In order to present the actual material condition of full-time employees in the Polish United Workers’ Party I listed salaries of various professions. The analysis allowed me to state that the party’s establishment belonged to the best-paid people in Poland. If we add to it an easier access to luxurious goods, it turns out that working for the Polish United Workers’ Party was very gainful.
EN
The article constitutes an attempt to initiate research on the attitude of the Toruń community towards the political authorities after the martial law, the basic subject of which is not the opposition but a broad cross-section of society. The aim of the article is to examine the moods and behavior of the personnel of Toruń’s enterprises, with special emphasis on employees not belonging to the political opposition. The files of the archival collection of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party in Toruń and selected underground magazines were used for the research. The conclusions reveal the ambiguous and variable, if not radical, attitude of Toruń’s workers to the authorities in the discussed period, and the fact that dissatisfaction was based mainly on the economic grounds.
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