- Stefan Staszewski
Stefan Staszewski, real name: Gustaw Szusterman (born in 1906,
Warsaw – died 1989), was a Polishcommunist apparatchik , originally in the Secretariat of the CC CPP (1930-1932), later a graduate and instructor at theLenin School inMoscow . At the time of theGreat Purges Staszewski was arrested byNKVD and sentenced to eight years inKolyma . On his release in 1945 he returned to Poland under the protectorate ofBolesław Bierut .During the reign of
Stalinism in thePeople's Republic of Poland Staszewski was in charge of propaganda, education and culture for theKatowice district ofSilesia . He later became editor-in-chief of thePolish Press Agency , a post he held until 1958. After a career in the propaganda apparatus, he was appointedFirst secretary of the Warsaw party committee but was forced out of that position at the end of the 1950s. Staszewski supportedWładysław Gomułka duringPolish October of 1956 but, in spite of this, was soon removed from power and, finally, expelled from the party in 1968.References
* Open Society Archives, [http://osaarchivum.org/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/47-6-145.shtml Stefan Staszewski mentioned by Julia Minc] (wife of
Hilary Minc ) in her 1985 interview withTeresa Torańska
* DOCUMENT 38. Dimitrov’s notes on confessions extracted during theNKVD ’s investigation ofPoles . [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:OtX61CKvGuYJ:www.yale.edu/annals/Chase/Documents/doc38chapt5.htm+%22Stefan+Staszewski%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=36 Polish files. CC CPP – 1930.]
*The Sarmatian Review , Soviet-occupied Poland: 1949, 1950, 1952. [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:Re7MSUu_1u8J:www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/194/purging.html+%22Stefan+Staszewski%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18 Purging Libraries: Six Documents.]
*Time Magazine , [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:7BGLw5VB_PUJ:www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809194,00.html+%22Stefan+Staszewski%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14 Sectarians & Revisionists.]
*Teresa Torańska , [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060914939 "Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets"]
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