Boleslaw Bierut - Definition and Overview

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Bolesław Bierut
Term of Office	from February 5, 1947 until November 21, 1952
Profession	type-setter
Political Party	communist
First Lady	Wanda Górska
Date of Birth	April 18, 1892
Place of Birth	Rury Jezuickie near Lublin
Date of Death	March 12, 1956
Place of Death	Moscow, Soviet Union

Bolesław Bierut (true name Bolesław Biernacki, April 18, 1892–March 12, 1956) was a Polish Communist leader, a Stalinist who led Poland in the aftermath of World War II.

Bierut was born near Lublin. In 1925 he went to Moscow to be trained at the school of the Communist International. When the Polish Communist Party was dissolved by Joseph Stalin in 1938, he was lucky to survive the following purge of the Polish communists. Recalled to head the new Polish Workers' Party in 1943, he functioned as head of the Polish provisional government from 1944 to 1947. Bierut was instrumental in the Soviet takeover of Poland by the Communists. Under the Bierut Decree of March 8, 1946, German lands and properties were confiscated. From 1947 to 1952, he was President of the Republic of Poland.

Although Bierut imposed Stalinist Communism on Poland, he refused to stage show trials of politicians in 1948, sparing his eventual successor Władysław Gomułka. He did, however, sanction the show trials of World War II military leaders such as General Stanisław Tatar, 40 members of the WiN (Freedom and Independence) organisation and church leaders. Many more opponents of the regime were sentenced to death in secret trials.

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People's Republic of Poland (1947 - 1989)	Bolesław Bierut | Aleksander Zawadzki | Edward Ochab | Marian Spychalski | Józef Cyrankiewicz | Henryk Jabłoński | Wojciech Jaruzelski

edit  (http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Template:Prime_Ministers_of_Poland)	Prime Ministers of Poland
Kingdom of Poland (1916 - 1918)	Jan Kucharzewski | Jan Kanty Steczkowski | Józef Świeżyński
2nd Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939)	Ignacy Daszyński | Jędrzej Moraczewski | Ignacy Paderewski | Leopold Skulski | Władysław Grabski | Wincenty Witos | Antoni Ponikowski | Artur Śliwiński | Julian Nowak | Władysław Sikorski | Aleksander Skrzyński | Kazimierz Bartel | Józef Piłsudski | Kazimierz Świtalski | Walery Sławek | Aleksander Prystor | Janusz Jędrzejewicz | Leon Kozłowski | Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski | Felicjan Sławoj-Składkowski
Government in Exile (1939 - 1990)	Władysław Sikorski | Stanisław Mikołajczyk | Tomasz Arciszewski | Tadeusz Komorowski | Tadeusz Tomaszewski | Roman Odzierzyński | Jerzy Hryniewski | Stanisław Mackiewicz | Hugon Hanke | Antoni Pająk | Aleksander Zawisza | Zygmunt Muchniewski | Alfred Urbański | Kazimierz Sabbat | Edward Szczepanik
People's Republic of Poland (1944 - 1989)	Edward Osóbka-Morawski | Józef Cyrankiewicz | Bolesław Bierut | Piotr Jaroszewicz | Edward Babiuch | Józef Pińkowski | Wojciech Jaruzelski | Zbigniew Messner | Mieczysław Rakowski | Czesław Kiszczak
3rd Republic of Poland (since 1989)	Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Jan Krzysztof Bielecki | Jan Olszewski | Waldemar Pawlak | Hanna Suchocka | Józef Oleksy | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Jerzy Buzek | Leszek Miller | Marek Belka