Edward Osóbka-Morawski

Prime Minister of Polish People's Republic

5 October 1909 Bliżyn, Congress Poland, Russian Empire

9 January 1997 (aged 87) Warsaw, Poland

31 December 1944 – 5 February 1947

Edward Bolesław Osóbka-Morawski ( listen ) (5 October 1909 – 9 January 1997) was a Polish activist and politician in the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) before World War II, and after the Soviet takeover of Poland, Chairman of the Communist-dominated interim government, the Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego) formed in Lublin with Stalin's approval. 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 Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of National Unity (Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej), in office until February 1947. Osóbka-Morawski believed the PPS should join with the other non-communist party in Poland, the Polish Peasant Party, to form a united front against the Communist Polish Workers' Party. However, another prominent socialist, Józef Cyrankiewicz argued that the PPS should support the communists while opposing the creation of an one-party state. The Communists, with Soviet support, played on this division and forced Osóbka-Morawski to resign in favour of Cyrankiewicz. Osóbka-Morawski would make his peace with the Communists, and gradually became an Stalinist. Nonetheless, in 1949 he was dismissed from his new post as the Minister of Public Administration, for "deviationist" tendencies. He was readmitted to the Communist Party, now called the Polish United Workers' Party, during the Polish October revolution of 1956. He then worked as a party official throughout most of his life in the People's Republic of Poland prior to the Revolutions of 1989, and in 1990 failed in his attempt to recreate the old Polish Socialist Party. He died in Warsaw in 1997. See also Stalinism in Poland Socialist realism in Poland Notes and references ^ Edward Osóbka-Morawski. The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. Warsaw, 2011. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths OSOBKA-MORAWSKI, EDWARD". The New York Times. January 12, 1997. Retrieved July 25, 2014 . Political offices Preceded by Tomasz Arciszewski (Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile)  Prime Minister of Poland 1944–1947 Succeeded by Józef Cyrankiewicz vtePrime ministers of PolandDuchy of Warsaw (1807–1813) Stanisław Małachowski Ludwik Szymon Gutakowski Józef Poniatowski (acting) Stanisław Kostka Potocki Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) Kucharzewski Ponikowski Kanty Steczkowski Świeżyński Wróblewski Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) Daszyński Moraczewski Paderewski Skulski Grabski Witos Ponikowski Śliwiński Nowak Sikorski Witos Grabski Skrzyński Witos Bartel Piłsudski Bartel Świtalski Bartel Sławek Piłsudski Sławek Prystor Jędrzejewicz Kozłowski Sławek Zyndram-Kościałkowski Składkowski Polish government-in-exile (1939–1990) Sikorski Mikołajczyk Arciszewski Bór-Komorowski Tomaszewski Odzierzyński Hryniewski Mackiewicz Hanke Pająk Zawisza Muchniewski Urbański Sabbat Szczepanik Polish People's Republic (1944–1989) Osóbka-Morawski Cyrankiewicz Bierut Cyrankiewicz Jaroszewicz Babiuch Pińkowski Jaruzelski Messner Rakowski Kiszczak Mazowiecki Third Polish Republic (1989–present) Mazowiecki Bielecki Olszewski Pawlak Suchocka Pawlak Oleksy Cimoszewicz Buzek Miller Belka Marcinkiewicz Kaczyński Tusk Kopacz Szydło Morawiecki vteMinisters of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of PolandRepublic of Poland Leon Wasilewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski Władysław Wróblewski Stanisław Patek Eustachy Sapieha Jan Dąbski Konstanty Skirmunt Gabriel Narutowicz Aleksander Skrzyński Marian Seyda Roman Dmowski Karol Bertoni Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski Aleksander Skrzyński Kajetan Dzierżykraj-Morawski August Zaleski Józef Beck Polish government-in-exile August Zaleski Edward Raczyński Tadeusz Romer Adam Tarnowski Mieczysław Sokołowski Aleksander Zawisza Jerzy Gawenda Jan Starzewski Bronisław Hełczyński Jerzy Gawenda Zygmunt Zawadowski Kazimierz Sabbat Zygmunt Skopiak People's Republic of Poland Edward Osóbka-Morawski Wincenty Rzymowski Zygmunt Modzelewski Stanisław Skrzeszewski Adam Rapacki Stefan Jędrychowski Stefan Olszowski Emil Wojtaszek Józef Czyrek Stefan Olszowski Marian Orzechowski Tadeusz Olechowski Republic of Poland Krzysztof Skubiszewski Andrzej Olechowski Władysław Bartoszewski Dariusz Rosati Bronisław Geremek Władysław Bartoszewski Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz Adam Daniel Rotfeld Stefan Meller Anna Fotyga Radosław Sikorski Grzegorz Schetyna Witold Waszczykowski Jacek Czaputowicz Zbigniew Rau Authority control General Integrated Authority File (Germany) ISNI 1 VIAF 1 WorldCat National libraries Italy Netherlands Poland Other Social Networks and Archival Context This biographical article about a Polish politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.vte