The Communist Party of Poland (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Polski) was a historical communist party in Poland. It was founded in 1918 through the merger of Socialdemocratic Party of Polish Kingdom and Lithuania and Polish Socialist Party-Left. Illegal in Poland. It was disbanded on the orders of Stalin in 1938, and most of the activists perished in the Great Purge.
The Polish Stalinist activist Kazimierz Mijal founded his Communist Party of Poland around 1960 (illegal then). The party ceased to exist after his emigration to Peking and Tirana.
The name has been used by a minor party, established in July2002.
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Communist Party of Poland (modern) (http://www.kompol.org)
It was a result of the fusion of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) and the Polish Socialist Party-Left in the Communist Workers Party of Poland (KomunistycznaPartia Robotnicza Polski, KPRP).
Confused as to the meaning of this the KPP engaged in street battles with troops loyal to the Witos government, which it called fascist, in Warsaw and called a general strike with the PPS on May 13th.
The KPP was to function from here to the time of its dissolution as little more than a border guard for Russia as was made clear when it was condemned for failing to realise the danger that Pilsudski posed to the Soviet Union.
He documents how KPP leaders were flattered by the attention they thought they were receiving from Pilsudski (by way of one of his intermediaries) as he prepared plans for his coup.
KPP leaders could well imagine the Pilsudski was Kerensky and his coup was a prelude to revolution.
He is at his best, however, when analyzing competing interpretations of KPP leaders of arcane issues such as the role of the petty bourgeoisie in a revolution, and the organizational relationship among Polish communist groups in Byelorussia, Galicia, Silesia, Warsaw, Gdansk, and Moscow.
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