Inventory of the Józef Śnieciński collection

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Title: Józef Śnieciński collection
Date (inclusive): 1942-1990
Collection Number: 2013C29
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Polish
Physical Description: 25 manuscript boxes. (10.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, bulletins, press releases, government documents, trade union documents, and printed matter, relating to domestic conditions, economic policy, foreign relations, and trade union activity in Poland under the communist regime.
source: Śnieciński, Józef, 1933-1996
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2013.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Józef Śnieciński collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Scope and Contents

Writings, bulletins, press releases, government documents, trade union documents, and printed matter, relating to domestic conditions, economic policy, foreign relations, and trade union activity in Poland under the communist regime.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Labor movement -- Poland
Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980
Poland -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1981
Poland -- Foreign relations
Śnieciński, Józef, 1933-1996

box 1

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Biuletyn Informacyjny 1987-1988

box 2

Materials prepared by the Secretariat of President Jaruzeiski (W. Gornicki) in connection with foreign visits during 1989-1990 1989-1990

box 3

Foreign visits

box 4

Two files of miscellaneous documents collected by Artur Starewicz 1981

Scope and Contents

Includes testimony of Lt. Marian Stepnowski on Jaruzelski's and Kania's trip to Brest to meet Andropov and Marshal Ustinov, 2-3 April1981, and 26 Sep 1981 memorandum from Gen. Florian Siwicki, Chief of Gen. Staff, to Jaruzelski regarding training of Libian officers in Poland.
box 5

Files of documents collected by Ryszard Nazarewicz 1944-1945, 1989

Scope and Contents

Includes 1945 testimonies of Wladyslaw Gomulka, Jakub Berman, and Henryk Altman and Kazimierz Witaszewski on the situation in Poland — before the Soviet KPCC, in Russian]; typescript of Benon Dymek, "Stalin a KPP", 1989, 400p.; "Raporty sluzb specjalnych "Wehrmachtu o ruchu partyzanckim na zapleczu frontu wschodniego, 2.XI.1944 do 31.1.1945", 126p.
box 6

Trade Unions (CRZZ) 1947-1949

Scope and Contents

1 file on "struggle against speculation" in Lublin and Lodz during 1948-1949 and 2 files from 1961; Sejm Ustawodawczy. Sprawozdania. 1947; Ministerstwo Aprowizacji. "Wioski w sprawie aprowizacji i gospodarki miesnej" grudzien 1946; reminiscences "of activists of class labor movement of construction workers"; Hanna Krauze-Jaworska "Referat materialowy do historii zwiazkow zawodowych kolejarzy, czesc I: lata 1918-1924", 114 p
box 7

Trade Unions (CRZZ) 1961, 1967

Scope and Contents

2 files from 1961 and 1 from 1967
box 8

Trade Unions continued

box 9

National Women's Council/Krajowa Rada Kobiet (CRZZ, 1975-1977) 1975-1977

box 10

Economic matters, 1946 through 1960s, mostly from Stefan Jedrychowski

box 11

Jedrychowski continued

box 12

Jedrychowski continued

box 13

Economic matters (Eugeniusz Szyr) 1960s - early 1970s; also 1946 lists of Silesian miners deported from Poland to forced labor in USSR 1946, 1960

box 14

Urzad Rady Ministrow (Council of Ministers). Uchwaly. Economic matters circa 1974-1980

box 15

URM continued 1976

box 16

Ibid.; 2 files of Rada Ekonomiczna materials

box 17

Miscellaneous papers from Kazimierz Kakol

box 18

Miscalleaneous papers regarding Polish domestic situation and international visits before 1989

box 19

"Solidarity" publications and related materials

box 20

Printed matter - "Materialy I dokumenty do zagadnienia Kosciol a Panstwo w 1951 r."; Nowe Widnokregi (Moscow) 1942-1944, 1951

box 21

Biuletyn CBOS, no. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 1985-1988

box 22

Historia Zawiercia, Monografia Huty w Ostrowcu Swietokrzyskim (1964); Ksiega wspomnien poligrafow Okregu Katowickiego (1972); Listy i wspomniena z lat 1960 do Komisji Historii Ruchu Zawodowego i innych organizacji; Historia tartaku przemyslu lesnego w Ustroniu (1963) 1960-1972

box 23

Ankiety Komisji Historii Zwiazkow Zawodowych S-Z; dokumenty huty "Staszic" w Sosnowcu (stawki I place robotnikow w latach 1927-1937); dokumenty z lat 1970 — Towarzystwo Przyjazni Polsko-Radzieckiej, Rady Gminne, listy do Zwiazkow Zawodowych 1970

box 24

"To juz tyle lat przelecialo", monografia; "Ksztaltowanie sie dochodu narodowego", Julian Kole (1959); Jozef Syska, "Wspomnienia" (1950); Ksiega Wspomnien Poligrafow, Katowice (1972]; Krotkie dokumenty ze wspomnieniami innych 1950, 1959, 1972

box 25

Wspomnienia dzialaczy ruchow zawodowych — lata 60-te; historie ruchow zawodowych; "Wspomnienia I czyny" — Huta Milkowice; wycinki z gazet i zdjecia; Zawodowy Ruch Hutnikow 1966 — wspomnienia i dokumenty; zdjecia ksiazek o hutach, ogloszen partyjnych; ksiazeczka zwiazku zawodowego w Krolestwie Polskim, 1907 (Jan Kozinski, ur. 1868 1960-1966