Władysław Gomułka: References & Edit History

Nicholas Bethell, Gomulka: His Poland, His Communism (1969, rev. ed. 1972), a comprehensive biography of Gomułka from his youth until the late 1960s; Adam Bromke, Poland’s Politics: Idealism vs. Realism (1967), an attempt at a systematic analysis of Polish postwar politics, with a detailed review of Gomułka’s programs and policies up to the mid-1960s; M.K. Dziewanowski, The Communist Party of Poland (1959), a scholarly history of the Polish Communist Party from its inception to the mid-1950s with considerable attention paid to Gomułka’s role in it. Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945–1950 (1997).