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        1. Polish communist leader 1946
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        3. Wladyslaw Gomulka was a key player within Polish politics for over four decades and one of the most influential of the East European Communist Party leaders.
        4. This article looks at a select number of biographies of Władysław Gomułka—an important postwar Polish politician, who because of his long.

          5. Wladislaw Gomulka

          Wladislaw Gomulka (1905-1982) ruled Poland for 14 years as first secretary of the Communist party. His career in politics reflected the difficult relationship between nationalism and international communism in Eastern Europe after 1945.

          Wladislaw Gomulka was born in February 1905, into a working-class family in Krosno, in southern Poland.

          He began work as a plumber at the age of 14 and soon became involved in political agitation. He joined the clandestine Polish Communist party in 1926 and became an active and effective organizer of strikes.

          As the architect of the 'Polish road to socialism', he claimed for Poland the right to define its own model of economic and political development.

          After 2 years in prison for conspiracy, he went to Moscow in 1934; after returning in 1936, he was imprisoned again but escaped when the Germans invaded Poland 3 years later, and again went to the Soviet Union. During his two years there, he had no significant involvement in communist politics, and he remained a home-grown and locally oriented Communist more Polish than Soviet.

          His appointment in 1942 to a top executive