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From 1953, criticism of the centralised and bureaucratised Polish economic system became increasingly widespread in the ranks of the Government and Party administration and among economic managers and intellectuals. In this atmosphere pressure from management of industrial enterprises, supported by the conclusions of theoretical discussions on the need to decentralise the system of economic management gave rise to a joint resolution of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PUWP) and the Council of Ministers, on 9 April 1956, on extending the powers of directors of industrial enterprises.
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See also the series of articles by B. N. Łopieńska and E. Szymańska, ‘Ludzie z Po Prostu’ (The People from Po Prostu), Kultura (1981).
O. Lange, Dzieła, Vol. II (Warsaw, 1973), pp. 475–6.
W. Gomułka, ‘Węzłowe problemy polityki partii’ (‘Central Policy Issues of the Party’), Trybuna Ludu, 16 May 1957.
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Osiatyński, J. (1988). The Question of Workers’ Self-Management. In: Michał Kalecki on a Socialist Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07873-8_2
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