page_title: Communist Party of Poland
section_title: Polish communists in the 1930s
hierarchical_section_title: Communist Party of Poland / Party history / 1926–1938 / Polish communists in the 1930s
caption_attribution_description: English: Adolf Warski Polish socialist and communist politician,member of Polish Sejm, later in USSR, executed by NKVD during Stalin great purge in USSR in 1930-ties
context_page_description: The interwar Communist Party of Poland was a communist party active in Poland during the Second Polish Republic. It resulted from a December 1918 merger of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and the Polish Socialist Party – Left into the Communist Workers' Party of Poland. The communists were a small force in Polish politics.
  The Communist Party of Poland was a conspiratorial organization of the radical Left. Following the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg, the party's aim was to create a Polish Socialist Republic, to be included in the planned Pan-European Commonwealth of Socialist States. The party did not support the formation of an independent Polish state in 1918 and supported the Bolsheviks in their war with Poland in 1920.
  The views adhered to and promulgated by the leaders of the KPP led to the party's difficult relationship with Stalin. The Communist International condemned the KPP for its support of Józef Piłsudski's May Coup of 1926. From 1933, the KPP was increasingly treated with suspicion by the Comintern. The party structures were seen as compromised due to infiltration by agents of the Polish military intelligence.
context_section_description: The popular front strategy was pursued by the KPP in the mid-1930s. The KPP pressed both the PPS and Bund for unity, which both rebuffed. The communists tried to infiltrate organisations alien to the workers' movement, such as the Peasant Party and even Catholic groups. Unity of the Left remained an impossible goal, however, possibly because of the KPP's prior animosity toward other parties and civil groups.
  Many militants of the KPP joined the International Brigades to fight the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. The Dąbrowski Battalion, named for the hero of the Paris Commune, was led by the KPP but counted among its members many PPS workers and other non-KPP volunteers.
caption: Adolf Warski
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