Edward Osóbka-Morawski

Edward Osóbka-Morawski
Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland 1st Prime Minister of Communist Poland
In office December 31, 1944 – February 5, 1947
President	Bolesław Bierut
Vice PM	Władysław Gomułka, Stanisław Mikołajczyk
Preceded by	Tomasz Arciszewski (in exile)
Succeeded by	Józef Cyrankiewicz
Personal details
Born	October 5, 1909 Bliżyn, then Russian Empire, now Poland
Died	January 9, 1997 (aged 87)
Political party	Polish Socialist Party

Edward Osóbka-Morawski ['edvart ɔˈsupka mɔˈrafskʲi] ( listen) (October 5, 1909 – January 9, 1997) was a Polish activist in PPS before World War II, and after the Soviet takover of Poland, Chairman of the Communist interim government called the Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego) formed in Lublin with Stalin's approval and backing.

In October 1944, Osóbka-Morawski was given the role of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture. Several months later, in June 1945, he was appointed as Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of National Unity (Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej), in office until February 1947. In 1949, at the advent of Stalinism in Poland he was fired from his new job of the Minister of Public Administration for "deviationist" tendencies in spite of having been a devout Stalinist. He was admitted to the communist party (PZPR) during the Polish October revolution of 1956. He worked as a party official throughout most of his life in the People's Republic of Poland prior to the collapse of the Soviet empire, and in 1990 attempted to recreate the old PPS however unsuccessfully. He died in 1997.^[1]

See also

• Stalinism in Poland
• Socialist realism in Poland

Notes and references

1. ^ Edward Osóbka-Morawski. The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. Warsaw, 2011.

Political offices
Preceded by Tomasz Arciszewski (Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile)	Prime Minister of Poland 1944–1947	Succeeded by Józef Cyrankiewicz

Persondata
Name	Osobka-Morawski, Edward
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Date of birth	October 5, 1909
Place of birth	Bliżyn, then Russian Empire, now Poland
Date of death	January 9, 1997
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