Andrzej Werblan (born 30 October 1924) is a historian, politologist and politician.
Biography The son of Jan and Eugenia. Together with his family he was deported to Siberia in 1940. From 1940 to 1943 he worked in a kolkhoz. After the Sikorski–Mayski agreement, he set out to Anders' Army, but he did not reach it; on the way he contracted typhus from lice. From 1943 to 1947 he served in the Polish Army. In 1946 he joined Polish Socialist Party (PPS); he then became a member its Supreme Council. Later he joined Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). From 1952 to 1955 he studied at the University of Warsaw and at the . He was a member of Sejm from 1952 to 1956 and from 1961 to 1985.
At the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party he was a deputy member (from 1948 to 1956), a member (from 1956 to 1981) and secretary (from 1974 to 1980).
In 1958, together with a delegation from the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party headed by Secretary , he spent six weeks in China at the invitation of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping.
From 1971 until 1982 he was Deputy Speaker of the Sejm.
From 1972 to 1974 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine . From 1974 to 1981 he was director of the Institute for Basic Problems of Marxism-Leninism. He supervised doctoral dissertation of in 1984.
His father-in-law was ; and is his daughter.
Books
Second edition – „Przegląd”, 2009. With Karol Modzelewski and . With Robert Walenciak.
Edited works
Honors and awards Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st class (1969) Order of the Builders of People's Poland (1974) Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland (1974) Ludwik Waryński Award (1988) Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (three times)
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