Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee
Julian Baltazar Marchlewski , Chairman |
The Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee (
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
.
History
Polrevkom was created on 23 July 1920, in
Polish Communist Workers' Party
.
The Polrevkom was assembled on 24 July in
puppet government.[2]
The committee consisted of the following members:
- Julian Baltazar Marchlewski(Chairman)
- Feliks Dzierżyński(de facto leader)
- Feliks Kon (Education)
- Edward Próchniak (Secretary)
- Józef Unszlicht (Party)
- Bernard Zaks (Industry)
- Stanisław Bobiński (Agriculture)
- Tadeusz Radwański (Propaganda)
- Marian Stokowski
The Polrevkom activity was related to the
Galicia
.
The TKRP was met with relative enthusiasm in Białystok which had about 75% Jewish and working class majority. However, as the Red Army moved on towards Warsaw, it and Polrewkom had little support from the Polish population.[3]
On 22 August 1920 the Polrevkom moved out of Białystok to Minsk with the defeat of the Red Army, and was dissolved soon afterwards. A significant number of the key persons involved were later instrumental in creation of the
Polish Autonomous District within the Soviet Union
.
Notes
- ^ Zbiór afiszów i druków ulotnych 1944-1950, nr z 376, sygn. 262 "Wystawa - 50 lat Archiwum w Białymstoku"[permanent dead link],(in Polish) retrieved on: 9 August 2007.
- ^ Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Civil War, Pegasus Books, 2007
References
- ISBN 0-7126-0694-7. (First edition: St. Martin's Press, inc., New York, 1972)
- Przemysław Sieradzan (2005). "Julian Marchlewski i Krótka Historia PolRewKomu". Komunistyczna Partia Polski 1918-1938 (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2009-08-09. Retrieved 2007-01-25.
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