Mieczysław Rakowski
- Birth Date:
- 01.12.1926
- Death date:
- 08.11.2008
- Extra names:
- Mieczysław Rakowski, Мечислав Раковский, Мечислав Раковський
- Categories:
- Communist Party worker, Historian, Journalist, Nominee, Pedagogue, teacher, Politician, Prime minister, Publicist
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Mieczysław Rakowski (December 1, 1926 – November 8, 2008) was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist.
Rakowski served as an officer in the Polish People's Army from 1945 to 1949. He began his political career in 1946 as a member of the Polish Workers' Party, and from 1948 to 1990 he was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), serving on its Central Committee from 1975 to 1990.
He received a doctorate in history from Warsaw's Institute for Social Sciences in 1956. Rakowski served as the second-to-last communist Prime Minister of Poland from September 1988 to August 1989 (Czesław Kiszczak then served less than a month as the last communist, before the accession of Tadeusz Mazowiecki). He was the last First Secretary of the PZPR from July 1989 to January 1990. However, he was not, unlike his predecessors, the de facto leader of the country; the PZPR had given up its monopoly of power in early 1989.
Rakowski was also known as one of the founders and, from 1958 to 1982, first deputy and then chief editor of the weekly newspaper Polityka, one of the most influential publications at the time (Polityka continues to exist and is regarded by many as the most prestigious weekly in Poland). Today some people still remember him as a journalist and editor rather than a politician.
Rakowski was involved in the Communist government during suppression of the Solidarity movement. He also played part of the Polish transformation from state socialism to market capitalism, as his Communist-led government was forced to reform and he was one of the key players in the Polish Round Table Agreements.
Prior to becoming Prime Minister, he had been divorced from the violinist Wanda Wiłkomirska, with whom he had two sons.
He died on November 8, 2008 from cancer in Warsaw at the age of 81.
Source: wikipedia.org
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| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcin Nurowski | Employee | ||
| 2 | Izabela Płaneta-Małecka | Employee | ||
| 3 |  | Michał Janiszewski | Employee | |
| 4 |  | Czesław Kiszczak | Successor |
19.03.1981 | Bydgoszcz events
Bydgoszcz events (Polish: wypadki bydgoskie) refers to a turning point in the early history of the Solidarity movement. Following the registration of Solidarity by the authorities of Poland in 1980, the farmers were also pushing for creation of a separate trade union, independent from the official system of power. The NSZZ RI Solidarność (Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Individual Farmers Solidarity, also called Rural Solidarity) was created, but not legalized by the authorities. Because of that on March 16, 1981 in Bydgoszcz a strike was proclaimed.
23.12.1988 | Sejm PRL przyjął tzw. ustawę Wilczka
Ustawa Wilczka – potoczne określenie ustawy z dnia 23 grudnia 1988 r. o działalności gospodarczej opracowanej według projektu ministra przemysłu Mieczysława Wilczka i premiera Mieczysława Rakowskiego uchwalonej przez Sejm PRL IX kadencji. Ustawa obowiązywała od 1 stycznia 1989 do 31 grudnia 2000 i regulowała w sposób liberalny działalność gospodarczą.