Poland
Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska] (listen)), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska [ʐɛt͡ʂpɔˈspɔlita ˈpɔlska] (listen)), is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of nearly 38.5 million people, Poland is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland's topographically diverse territory extends from the beaches along the Baltic Sea in the north …
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List of Communist Party leaders by Eastern European country, 1946-1991
Károly Grósz 1987-1988 Miklós Németh 1988-1989 Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party … Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Poland/Prime Minister of Poland Józef Cyrankiewicz 1947-1952 Bolesław …
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Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.
371/166111 113-122 Textual A poem about life in Poland, banned by the Polish government FO 371/166208 … account by the British Ambassador to Poland of an official visit to Poland by Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister … 183179%22 https://history-commons.net/artifacts/2370308/poland/3391313/ https://history-commons.net/artifacts … https://history-commons.net/artifacts/2370726/poland/3391751/ https://history-commons.net/artifacts … https://history-commons.net/artifacts/2371048/poland/3392123/ https://history-commons.net/artifacts …
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List of files retained by the British government that are not available in Cold War Eastern Europe
personalities in Poland 1983 Jan 01 - 1983 Dec 31 FCO 28 5583 Political contacts with Poland: policy 1983 … Political contacts with Poland: policy 1983 Jan 01 - 1983 Dec 31 FCO 28 5587 Poland: applications for political … Dec 31 FCO 28 5608 Intelligence activities in Poland 1983 Jan 01 - 1983 Dec 31 FCO 28 5655 Arrest of … of Gary Mead, British Council lecturer, in Poland 1983 Jan 01 - 1983 Dec 31 FCO 28 5666 Political relations … Correspondence from 1906-19661906-1966 NORTHERN (N): Poland (NP) 1962 FO 371 166193 Foreign Office: Political …
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Dr. Mark Allinson, University of Bristol; Professor Csaba Békés, Corvinus University of Budapest; Dr. Peter Bugge, Aarhus University; Professor Melissa Feinberg, Rutgers University; Dr. Hope M. Harrison, The George Washington …
Cold War history, including Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 and Poland's War against Radio Free Europe …
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State leaders in Eastern Europe, Berlin Mayors, United Kingdom Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries, Politicians and Statesmen, Ambassadors, Other Eastern European Figures
Bierut Poland Secretary General of the Polish United Workers Party 1948-1956 Edward Ochab Poland First … Gomułka Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party 1956-1970 Edward Gierek Poland First … Kania Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party 1980-1981 Wojciech Jaruzelski Poland First … Anders Poland inspector-general of the Polish forces-in-exile 1946 - 1954 Józef Cyrankiewicz Poland Prime … Minister of the Republic of Poland 1947 - 1952 and 1954 - 1970 Edward Ochab Poland First Secretary of the …
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Countries and Constituent Republics of Eastern European States during the Cold War
Hungarian People's Republic Poland Polish People's Republic (P.R.L) Republic of Poland Romania Romanian People's …
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British Foreign Office Departments and their leaders, by region and year
Yugoslavia Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland Romania Soviet Union Baltic States Fo re ig …
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Editorial description of the content of Cold War Eastern Europe
Czechoslovakia ● East Germany and Berlin ● Hungary ● Poland ● Romania ● Soviet Union ● Yugoslavia Users can …
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Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …
Czechoslovakia ● East Germany and Berlin ● Hungary ● Poland ● Romania ● Soviet Union ● Yugoslavia Cold War … military suppression of uprisings in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary. Concurrently, the death of Stalin … Founding of the Warsaw Pact ● Poznań Uprising in Poland ● Hungarian Revolution ● Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" … states, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Albania, and Yugoslavia from 1967 onwards. … members Czechoslovakia (in the Prague Spring) and Poland (in the 1968 crisis and protests of 1970), and …
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State security agencies, International Organizations, Political Organizations, Non-governing Political Parties and Organizations, Youth Organizations, and other Key Terms
Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego Poland (to 1954) SB Security Service Służba Bezpieczeństwa Poland (from 1954) Securitate … Czechoslovakia UB Office of Security Urząd Bezpieczeństwa Poland (to 1954) UDBA State Security Administration Služba … FJN National Unity Front Front Jedności Narodu Poland HNF Patriotic People's Front Hazafias Népfront … Alliance of Democrats Stronnictwo Demokratyczne Poland SSO Party of Slovak Revival Strana slovenskej … United People's Party Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe Poland National Front Národní fronta/Národný front Czechoslovakia …
