Download or read book Political Authority and Party Secretaries in Poland, 1975-1986 written by Paul G. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-06-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the changing position and role of the Polish United Workers' Party and its apparatus between 1975 and 1986. Their role and the way they perform it is seen as a major determinant of the nature of party leadership and, more generally, of the strength of political authority in communist states.