Władysław Gomułka

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Władysław Gomułka was a Polish communist politician who served as the de facto leader of Poland from 1956 to 1970, overseeing a period of limited political liberalization followed by renewed repression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Polish politician
communist politician
head of government
human
political leader
causeOfDeath lung cancer
countryLed Poland
countryOfCitizenship Poland
dateOfBirth 1905-02-06
dateOfDeath 1982-09-01
deFactoLeaderOf Poland
ethnicGroup Poles
familyName Gomułka
givenName Władysław
ideology Marxism–Leninism
national communism
languageSpoken Polish
memberOfPoliticalParty Polish United Workers' Party
Polish Workers' Party
movement communism
name Władysław Gomułka
officeEndTime 1970-12-20
officeStartTime 1956-10-21
opposedBy student movement in Poland
workers' protests on the Baltic coast
participatedIn Polish October
placeOfBirth Krosno
placeOfDeath Warsaw
policy alignment with the Soviet Union
collectivization of agriculture (partially reversed)
limited political liberalization in late 1950s
repression of political opposition
support for Warsaw Pact
positionHeld Deputy Prime Minister of Poland
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party
Minister of the Recovered Territories of Poland
precededBy Bolesław Bierut
reasonForEndOfOffice forced resignation after 1970 protests
religion atheism
replacedBy Edward Gierek
sexOrGender male
significantEvent 1968 Polish political crisis
1968 antisemitic campaign in Poland
1970 Polish protests
Polish October 1956
spouse Zofia Gomułkowa
workPeriod interwar period
post–World War II period


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