Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth

The Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth included the following member parties:

Party	Polish name	Emblem	Foundation	Dissolution	Ideology
Polish United Workers' Party	Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza		21 December 1948	30 January 1990	Communism
United People's Party	Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe		27 November 1949	29 November 1989	Agrarian socialism
Alliance of Democrats	Stronnictwo Demokratyczne		18 September 37	Still active	Centrism

It also included the following organizations when founded:

• Stowarzyszenie PAX (Pax)
• Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie Społeczne (ChSS)
• Polski Związek Katolicko-Społeczny (PZKS)

It was later joined by many other organizations, such as All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions, Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego and Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Dzieci. Few members of those organizations were aware of their membership in PRON, as PRON members included organizations, not individuals. PRON membership was required by communist propaganda, and necessary for any organization that wanted to exist on political scene with support of the government.

PRON was mentioned in the amended Polish communist constitution, where it replaced the Front of National Unity. Like its predecessor, it was dominated by the PZPR; the minor parties had to accept the PZPR's "leading role" as a condition of their continued existence.

PRON's chairman was the writer Jan Dobraczyński. The foundation committee included in addition to Dobraczyński: Marian Orzechowski, Janusz Reykowski, Andrzej Przypkowski, Edmund Męclewski, Jan Majewski, Andrzej Elbanowski, Józef Chlebowczyk, Władysław Ogrodziński, Walenty Milenuszkin, Wiesław Nowicki, Jerzy Stencel, Elżbieta Ciborowska, Jerzy Kejna, Piotr Perkowski, Józef Kiełb, Jerzy Ozdowski, Stanisław Rostworowski, Gizela Pawłowska, Zbigniew Gertych, Klemens Krzyżagórski, Anatola Klajna and Zbigniew Siatkowski.

It was the sole organisation to put forward candidates in the 1985 election, which proved to be the last elections in which no opposition candidates were permitted to run. As such, it won every seat in the Sejm.

• Patriotyczny Ruch Odrodzenia Narodowego entry at PWN Encyklopedia
• and - entries at WIEM Encyklopedia