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This study covers a limited time period. Editorial limits of space and more important substantive factors rule out detailed coverage of events concerning the Democratic Party (Stronnictwo Demokratyczny) before 1988. Despite the fact that the process of systemic-constitutional change started with the appearance of the Solidarity reform movement in 1980 the most important events from our point of view came to a head during 1988–90.
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P. Winczorek, Miejsce i rola SD w strukturze politycznej PRL, (Zagadnienia wybrane) (Warsaw: EPOKA, 1975).
SD Information, Press and Training Bureau, Stronnictwo Demokratyczne w latach 1937–1965 (Warsaw: EPOKA, 1967).
On interwar Polish Freemasonary see the study by the longtime postwar SD politician mentioned in footnote 4; Leon Chajn, Polskie Wolnomularstwo 1920–1938 (Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1984).
H. Wosiński, Stronnictwo Demokratyczne w latach II wojny światowej (Warsaw, 1980).
J. Wrona, Rola komunistów w kierownictwie SD a process stalinizacji Polski (Warsaw, unpublished mimeograph, 1989);
T. Torańska, Oni. Stalin’s Polish puppets (London: Collins-Harvill, 1987) interview with Leon Chajn, SD General-Secretary, then deputy-chairman, 1946–65.
Marek Żmigrodzki, Partie sojusznicze w państwach typu socjalistnego (Lublin, 1980).
Wojciech Lamentowicz, ‘Kulturowe aspekty legitymizacji monocentrycznych struktur politycznych’, Jadwiga Staniszkis, ‘Stabilizacja bez uprawomocnienia’ and Jacek Tarkowski, ‘Sprawność gospodarcza jako substytut legitymacji w Polsce powojennnej’ in Andrzej Rychard and Andrzej Sułek (eds), Legitymacja; klasyczne teorie i polskie doświadczenia (Warsaw, 1988).
Compare XU Kongress SD 14–17 marca 1981 (Warsaw, 1984) and R. Holly, K. Polarczyk and P. Winczorek, ‘Analiza porównacza programu SD przyjętego ne XII Kongresie SD i programu NSZZ “Solidarność” przyjętego na I Zjeżdzie Związku’ (Warsaw: unpublished mimeograph, 1981).
Cf. G. Sanford, The Solidarity Congress 1981. The Great Debate (London: Macmillan, 1990).
K. Leski points this out in his description of the Round Table which is critical of the government-coalition side, Coś. Rzecz o Okrągłym Stole. (Warsaw, 1989), p. 16.
Cf. A. Florczyk, T. Żukowski and J. Najdowski ‘Poland’s new political geography’ in Polish Elections 1989, (Warsaw, 1989).
At the moment of writing a dramatic dispute is taking place about the resources of the ex-PZPR which are being claimed by its successor, the SdRP. This dispute also covers the issue of the property of the SD and PSL ‘Odrodzenie’. Solidarity Deputies, supported by some SD and PSL Deputies are demanding its nationalisation. The SD had nationally about 460 premises and buildings at its disposal, of which 450 were rented bureaux in state buildings, usually made up of a small number of rooms. The ex-PZPR by way of comparison, disposed of about 1900 premises but the vast majority were large office buildings. The SD, like many other organisations, benefited from state subsidies which have now been withdrawn. The sources of SD finance which remain is the income from its publications, the enterprises in which the party has an interest and its membership dues. The legal status of political parties has hitherto been complicated and unclear. During the first half of 1990 a Law on Political Parties was being prepared which would regulate the situation. Cf. P. Winczorek, ‘Problem ustawowej regulacji położenia prawnego partii politycznych we Polsce’, Państwo i Prawo, no. 1 (1990).
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Winczorek, P. (1992). The Internal Evolution and Changing Policies of the Democratic Party. In: Sanford, G. (eds) Democratization in Poland, 1988–90. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12057-4_9
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