Political party archives

The communist party had a developed organisational structure which consisted of numerous elements forming a system of mutual dependencies and a very unique office personnel who was in charge of managing the said system. The aim of the article is to describe the system of recording and the flow of information in local structures of communist party in Poland between 1975 and 1989 which were formed from provincial party organisation, meaning provincial party committees and all their subordinate committees and lower-level organisations. It was an enormous bureaucratic system which, in bigger provinces, could be made up from even a few thousand of activists, some involved more, some less in shaping the life of the society, distributing information and producing documentation about the party functioning

Bureaucracy · Communism · Documentation · Organizational structure · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Computer Science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Public Administration