Edward Babiuch

Edward Babiuch
50th Prime Minister of Poland
6th Premier of Communist Poland
In office
February 18, 1980 – August 24, 1980
President Henryk Jabłoński (Chairman of the Council of State)
Preceded by Piotr Jaroszewicz
Succeeded by Józef Pińkowski
Personal details
Born (1927-12-28) December 28, 1927
Grabocin, near Będzin, Poland
Political party Polish United Workers' Party

Edward Babiuch (['edvart ˈbabjux] ( listen); born December 28, 1927)[1] is a retired Polish Communist political figure. He was one of four deputy chairmen of the Polish Council of State 1976–1980. Babiuch served as the 50th Prime Minister of Poland in 1980, from February 18 to August 24 of that year.[2][3]

Babiuch and Brezhnev
Edward Babiuch and Fidel Castro c. 1973

References

  1. ↑ Profile of Edward Babiuch
  2. ↑ Staar, Richard Felix; Drachkovitch, Milorad M.; Gann, Lewis H. (1981), Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, Hoover Institution Publication, 235, Hoover Institution Press, p. 282, ISBN 978-0-8179-7501-2 .
  3. ↑ Starski, Stanislaw (1982), Class Struggle in Classless Poland, South End Press, p. 110, ISBN 978-0-89608-140-6 .
Political offices
Preceded by
Piotr Jaroszewicz		 Prime Minister of Poland
1980		 Succeeded by
Józef Pińkowski


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