The article presents the beginnings of the political career of Roman Romkowski (born Menasche
Grünspan), one of the most infl uential Communists in the public security services of the
Polish People’s Republic and the deputy minister in the Ministry of Public Security. He was born
in 1907 in Cracow to a poor Jewish working-class family. Most probably, he took his fi rst steps in
the direction of the Communist movement under the infl uence of his elder siblings. At fi rst, he was
active within the trade unions and the Poale Zion Left. In 1924 he became a member of the Communist
Youth Association (ZMK) in Poland. In the Cracow Regional Committee of ZMK, he was
in charge of the so-called technology, the secretary of one of the district units of ZMK, and (in 1927
and 1930) President of the Cracow Committee. He was repeatedly arrested and tried for his involvement.
In 1930 he was sent to study in Moscow, which opened a new stage of his political career.
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historia Polski XX wieku
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komunizm
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Żydzi
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Kraków
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20th-century
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history of Poland
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Communism
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Jews
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Cracow
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dc.description.series
Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, ISSN 0860-0139
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143
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1
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1,6
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dc.identifier.doi
10.4467/20844069PH.15.001.4930
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2084-4069
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dc.title.journal
Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prace Historyczne
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pol
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dc.date.accession
2020-02-14
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Article
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OTHER; otwarte czasopismo; ostateczna wersja wydawcy; w momencie opublikowania; 0