Word: gomulkaism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved to have a momentum its authors had not bargained for. To their dismay, the Soviets discovered that the gift of a little freedom simply whetted their subjects' appetite for more. One result: bloody revolution in Hungary. Another: the rise to power in Poland of "National Communist" Wladyslaw Gomulka, who accepted aid from the U.S., reached a modus vivendi with the Vatican, and ruled with the toleration of restive Poles, who did not wish another Budapest...
...reversing himself, he was capable of reaching it on his own. In true Communist fashion he chose to serve notice of his decision not in a proclamation but in action-the execution of Nagy, Maleter & Co. Nor did anyone in the Communist world miss the point. Poland's Gomulka, described by his associates as "broken and bitter," saw no one for hours after the news reached Warsaw...
...need for a proclaimed unanimity in the satellites works hardest on Poland's Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Last week he paid his first visit to Budapest since the 1956 popular risings. At the airport he shook hands stiffly with Janos...
...Eastern Europe (see below). In the process, Khrushchev also ineptly stirred up the ticklish relations between Russia and Poland. Fortnight ago. in deference to the knowledge that the U.S.S.R. could bring Polish industry to a standstill in six weeks by cutting off raw-materials shipments, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka took steps that were bound to increase his unpopularity at home. In response to pressure from Khrushchev. Gomulka curtailed the power of the democratic Workers' Councils, and severely limited the freedom of the press. Last week, clearly outraged by Khrushchev's crude attempt to dictate to Tito...
Irreverent Remedy. At the Eleventh Plenum of Poland's Communist United Worker's Party two months ago, tough-minded Wladyslaw Gomulka, who rose to power partially on the strength of his outspoken criticism of his predecessors' economic bungling, argued that impoverished Poland could no longer afford such inefficiency. His remedy: mass dismissal of surplus, lazy and unskilled workmen. In effect, he tacitly confessed that the price of Communist full employment is intolerably low productivity and a uniform level of poverty. A handful of hardcore Stalinists who have never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's lack of reverence...