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Title: Stefan Jędrychowski papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1994
Collection Number: 95030
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Polish
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(3.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Interview transcripts, speeches and writings, correspondence, and photographs relating to governmental administration, economic
planning, and foreign policy in Poland.
Creator:
Jędrychowski, Stefan
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1995.
[Identification of item], Stefan Jędrychowski papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Stefan Jędrychowski (1910-1996) was a Polish economist and politician who served in many high-ranking offices of the Polish
People's Republic. He joined the communist party in Wilno, where he was born and educated, before World War II, becoming a
member of the Soviet Communist Party during the war. In the 1940s, Jędrychowski was a member of the Polish Committee of National
Liberation (PKWN), representing the committee in Moscow and France and then serving in the national unity government as the
Minister of Navigation and Foreign Trade. In Poland he served as the vice president of the Rada Ministrów from 1951 to 1956;
president of the Komisja Planowania from 1956 to 1968; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1968 to 1971; and Minister of Finance
from 1971 to 1974. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in the 1950s and 1960s.
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers of Stefan Jędrychowski consist of interview transcripts, speeches and writings, correspondence, and photographs
relating to governmental administration, economic planning, and foreign policy in Poland. The collection is divided into two
series, both arranged chronologically. The documentary and photographic evidence which Jędrychowski preserved about his governmental
activity in communist Poland provides a window into the highest levels of party life during the post-war decades and Poland's
place in the orbit of communist states.
The
Speeches, Interviews, and Writings series, containing speeches, interviews, planning documents and other writings by Jędrychowski, is strongest in the earliest
period of his political and governmental activity during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The transcript of an extensive interview
of Jędrychowski conducted in the early 1990s is at the end of this series and forms a useful guide to the original documents.
The
Photographs series reflect the full range of Jędrychowski's public life from the 1940s into the 1980s. Nearly all were produced by professional,
official government photographers and primarily document Jędrychowski's participation in official visits, ceremonies, and
meetings in Poland and abroad as a representative of the Polish government. This part of the collection is richest, therefore,
from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Frequently Jędrychowski is not the main participant in an event, being a listener or
observer of the primary participant or action. He annotated extensively on the back of most of the photographs. The descriptions
in this finding aid are summaries that will help guide researchers to particular photographs or year ranges, but they are
not exhaustive in terms of what a researcher will be able to identify about a photograph when consulting it, nor is it an
exhaustive, photograph-by-photograph, register.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980
Statesmen -- Poland
Poland -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
Poland -- Economic policy -- 1945-1981