Zbigniew Messner (b. March 13, 1929 in Stryj, Poland) was a Communist economist and politician in Poland. In 1972, he became Professor of Economic Academy in Katowice. He was a member of Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party from 1981 till 1988, deputy prime minister in 1983 - 1985 and Prime Minister 1985 - 1988. March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The city of Stryi(German: Stryj) is located on the left bank of Stryi river on the Carpathian foothills in Ukraine. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Panorama of Katowice at night Katowice (pronunciation: [] (Czech: Katovice, German: Kattowitz) is an important city of the historical region of Upper Silesia in southern Poland on the KÅodnica and Rawa rivers. ... The Polish United Workers Party (PUWP; in Polish, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, PZPR), was the governing political party in communist_ruled Poland from its creation (through a fusion of the communist Polish Workers Party and the left wing of the Polish Socialist Party) in December 1948 until the regimes electoral... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 1988, his cabinet received a motion of no confidence in the Sejm (Parliament), still dominated by Communists, and had to transfer power to Mieczysław Rakowski. This was an unprecedented event in the Communist world, one of the strongest signs of democratic change brought by Mikhail Gorbachev. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... A motion of no confidence, also called a motion of non-confidence, a censure motion, a no-confidence motion, or simply a confidence motion, is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a parliament by the opposition in the hope of defeating or embarrassing a government. ... The Sejm building in Warsaw. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orangeâthe former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... Mieczysław Rakowski (b. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: ; Pronunciation: mih-kha-ILL ser-GHE-ye-vich gor-bah-CHOFF) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ...
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(Polish) Photograph and short biography of Zbigniew Messner