Communist Party of Poland

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The Communist Party of Poland was an early 20th-century Marxist-Leninist political party that operated in interwar Poland and was closely aligned with the Soviet communist movement.

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Label Occurrences
Communist Party of Poland canonical 4

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf banned political party
communist party
political party
activeDuring Second Polish Republic
alignedWith Comintern
surface form: Communist International

Soviet Union
Soviet communist movement
bannedBy Government of the Second Polish Republic
surface form: authorities of the Second Polish Republic
calledFor dictatorship of the proletariat
socialist revolution in Poland
country Poland
dissolutionBy Comintern
surface form: Executive Committee of the Communist International
dissolutionReason Stalinist purges
alleged infiltration by police agents
dissolved 1938
founded 1918
headquartersLocation Warsaw
historicalEra interwar period
ideology Marxism–Leninism
communism
language Polish
legalStatus illegal in the Second Polish Republic
memberOf Comintern
surface form: Communist International
notableEvent liquidation of leadership during the Great Purge
mass arrests of party members in the 1930s
operatedIn Second Polish Republic
surface form: interwar Poland
operationalForm clandestine organization
opposed Polish nationalism
capitalism
opposedBy National Democracy movement
Sanation movement
surface form: Sanation regime
participatedIn workers' strikes in interwar Poland
position far-left
precededBy Polish Socialist Party
surface form: Polish Socialist Party – Left

Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
promoted proletarian internationalism
reasonForBan links to the Soviet Union
subversive activities
region Central Europe
repressedBy UB (Polish secret police)
surface form: Polish state security forces

Soviet secret police during the Great Purge
succeededBy Polish Workers' Party
targetedGroup industrial workers
peasants
undergroundActivity yes
usedSymbol hammer and sickle
red flag

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wanda Wasilewska memberOf Communist Party of Poland
Polish Workers' Party precededBy Communist Party of Poland
PPR predecessor Communist Party of Poland
subject surface form: Polska Partia Robotnicza
Jakub Berman memberOf Communist Party of Poland