The Puławians , or the Puławy faction ( Polish : Puławianie , frakcja puławska ), as they came to be informally dubbed, comprised one of two principal communist groupings in Stalinist Poland which – in the spring of 1956, following the death of Bolesław Bierut – vied for power within the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party (the PZPR ). The Puławians were known, during Poland's destalinization process, as reformists.
5-825: The other – a hardliner – grouping were dubbed the Natolinians ( Natolińczycy ), or the Natolin faction. The Puławy faction included many communists of Jewish extraction . Among the most prominent were Roman Zambrowski and Leon Kasman . The name "Puławy faction" came from the addresses of the Warsaw apartment buildings at Puławska Street 24 and 26, which had survived the Germans' planned destruction of Warsaw in World War II . The apartments were occupied mainly by high communist party officials, including supporters of
10-712: The Natolinian faction ( Polish : Natolińczycy , frakcja natolińska ), were a grouping within the leadership of the communist Polish United Workers' Party (the PZPR ). Formed around 1956, shortly after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , it was named after the palace where its meetings were held, in Warsaw 's Natolin district . The main opposition to the Natolinians were
15-742: The 8th Plenum of the Central Committee of the PZPR , in October 1956, the Natolinians suffered a major setback when the First Secretary of the PZPR, Władysław Gomułka , chose to back (and be backed by) the Puławians. Both factions, the Natolinians and the Puławians, disappeared from the political scene in the late 1950s. Witold Jedlicki described the struggle between the Natolinians and
20-701: The Puławy Street faction. The Natolin Palace faction called them, by an uncomplimentary version of the word, “the Jews.” Witold Jedlicki describes the struggle between the Natolinians and Puławians in his Simpletons and Yids . ( Chamy i Żydy ) Some children of Puławians would later be involved in Poland's March 1968 polticial crisis . This Polish history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Natolinians The Natolinians , or
25-585: The reformist Puławians , who included many PZPR members of Jewish extraction. The Natolinians opposed the post- Stalinist liberalization program (the Polish October "thaw") and, as part of their strategy to seek power, voiced simplistic nationalist and anti-Soviet slogans. The best-known Natolinians included Franciszek Jóźwiak , Wiktor Kłosiewicz , Zenon Nowak , Aleksander Zawadzki , Franciszek Mazur , Władysław Kruczek , Kazimierz Mijal , Władysław Dworakowski , and Hilary Chełchowski . After
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