Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to the People's Republic of Poland.

The tactics of guerrilla warfare were used successfully in the 20th century by — among others — the Soviet partisans and the Polish Home Army and the OSS in Burma in World War II ; Mao Zedong and the People's Liberation Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

After the war, Greater Poland was fully within the Polish People's Republic, as Poznań Voivodeship.

Witos was an Polish People's Party " Piast " | agrarian party leader and a centrist politician, later Brest trials | persecuted under the Sanation | Sanation regime.

On May 12, 1926, Piłsudski, prompted by mutinous units seeking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister Wincenty Witos of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President Stanisław Wojciechowski and overpowering the troops loyal to him.

German actions like Kulturkampf, the program of Germanization started to unite and mobilize Polish people in Polish inhabited territories held by Germany including Masuria A Polish-oriented party, the Mazurska Partia Ludowa (" Mazur People's Party "), was founded in 1897.

An alliance between the SLD and the Polish People's Party ruled Poland in the years 1993 – 1997.

After the elections, the coalition was joined by the Polish People's Party ( PSL ) in forming a government and Leszek Miller became the Prime Minister.

In 1988, the People's Navy had brief hostile confrontations with Polish naval forces over a maritime border dispute ; in subsequent negotiations about two thirds of the disputed maritime area were allocated to the GDR.

* September 19 – Polish parliamentary election, 1993: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power.

After Poland regained independence with the end of the World War I in 1918, the party merged with agrarian groups from territories previously occupied by Imperial Russia and formed the first PSL led by Wincenty Witos, becoming one of the most important political parties in the Second Polish Republic until it was removed by the Sanacja regime ( see also People's Party ).

During this time there were two parties using the term " Polish People's Party ": Polish People's Party " Piast " and Polish People's Party " Wyzwolenie ".

" Leonid Brezhnev reiterated it in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers ' Party on November 13, 1968, which stated:

* Central Committee of the Polish United Workers ' Party

After the military service, in 1969, he joined the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ).

Category: Polish United Workers ' Party members

In 1920 the candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74. 6 percent of votes and to the Polish Senate with 34. 6 % of votes for the Bloc of National Minorities in 1928.

The Nazi Party became the strongest party in the Masurian constituencies in the elections of 1930 and received its best results in the poorest areas of Masuria with the highest rate of Polish speakers.

According to German author Andreas Kossert Polish parties were financed and aided by the Polish government in Warsaw, and remained splintergroups without any political influence, e. g. in the 1932 elections the Polish Party received 147 votes in Masuria proper.

Another example would be the former Soviet Union where only members of the Communist Party were allowed to vote or hold office ; the French First Republic government under the Directory ; and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( only the nobility could vote ).

* Politburo of the Polish United Workers ' Party

Furthermore, the newly formed Polish United Workers ' Party created a Ministry of the Recovered Territories that claimed half of the available arable land for state-run collectivized farms.

Most of the members who established the party in 1999 had previously been members of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SdRP ) and the Polish Social Democratic Union, the two parties that were formed out of the remains of the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ).

* January 28 – The Polish United Workers ' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland.

** General Secretary of the Polish Communist Party, Władysław Gomułka, resigns ; Edward Gierek replaces him.

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

Krzysztof Penderecki (, born 23 November 1933 ) is a Polish composer and conductor.

This agreement gave Lithuanians control of the city of Vilnius (, ), the old Lithuanian capital, but a city with a majority Polish population.

It is also known by its original title, Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech (, " Song of the Polish Legions in Italy "), or by its incipit, Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła (, " Poland is not yet lost " or " Poland has not yet perished ").

Slovak (, slovenčina, not to be confused with slovenski jezik or slovenščina, the native name of the Slovene language ), is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages ( together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and

Solidarity (, pronounced ; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union " Solidarity " – Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy " Solidarność " ) is a Polish trade union federation that emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa.

Julian Karol Sochocki (, ; February 2, 1842, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – December 14, 1927, Leningrad, Soviet Union ) was a Polish mathematician.

The President of the Republic of Poland (, shorter form: Prezydent RP ) is the Polish head of state.

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (, ; May 31, 1640 – November 10, 1673 ), son of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and his wife Gryzelda Konstancja Zamoyska, was ruler of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from September 29, 1669, to his death in 1673.

John III Sobieski (, ) ( 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696 ) was one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1674 until his death King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Sigismund III Vasa (,, English exonym: Sigmund ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, a monarch of the united Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and King of Sweden ( where he is known simply as Sigismund ) from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599.

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (, ; born March 28, 1928 ) is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

The Armia Krajowa (, abbreviated AK ), or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland.

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (, ) (; February 12, 1746 – October 15, 1817 ) was a Polish ( sometimes described as Polish-Lithuanian ) and American general.

Three Colors: White (, ) is a 1994 Polish mystery comedy-drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (,,, or ), August 7, 1868 – July 15, 1931 ) was an economist and statistician of Polish descent, who lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University ( Privatdozent, 1895 – 1897 ) and Berlin University ( 1901 – 1931 ).

Richeza of Poland (, ; 12 April 1116 – after 25 December 1156 ), was a Polish princess and member of the House of Piast, and by her three marriages Queen consort of Sweden and Princess of the Principality of Minsk ( now the capital and largest city in Belarus ).

Ivonka Survilla or Surviłła (, born April 11, 1936 in Stoŭbcy, then part of Second Polish Republic ( West Belarus ), now in Minsk Voblast of Belarus, as Ivonka Shymaniets ;, ) is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic ( BNR ), the Belarusian government in exile.

The term Deluge (,, Cyrillic: Потоп ) denotes a series of mid-17th century campaigns in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theater of the Second Northern War only ( 1655 – 1660 ); In Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge (, ), and the term deluge ( or potop in Polish ) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz, in his 1886 book The Deluge.

Sanation (, ) was a Polish political movement that came to power after Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup d ' État.

The Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (, sometimes translated as 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division ), also commonly known as Christmas Tree Division due to the characteristic emblem, was an Allied unit fighting during World War II on the Italian Front.