Polski eksport na tle polityki ekonomicznej USA w latach 1945–1967

Abstract

The article presents a relatively unknown issue of Polish-US economic cooperation i.e. Polish export to this country during Bierut’s and Gomułka’s administrations. The chronology of the article is justified by the US policy, which in the years 1945–1967 can be divided into two periods: 1945–1960 and 1961–1967. It is to be stressed that these two periods differed a lot from each other and were characterized by different dynamics. The text is based mainly on documents created by the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which were deposited in the Central Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw. Auxiliary materials, such as statistical yearbooks, Journals of Laws of the Republic of Poland, English literature, newspapers and magazines, were also indispensable for the analysis of the problem. The article presents Polish export to the US in figures interpreted by the author. The goal of the article is to show US economic policy towards Poland and an attempt to answer the question whether economic issues influenced political relations of the two countries.