Polish Socialist Party – Left ( pl, Polska Partia Socjalistyczna – Lewica, PPS–L), also known as the Young Faction ( pl, Młodzi, links=no), was one of two factions into which

Polish Socialist Party The Polish Socialist Party ( pl, Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) is a socialist political party in Poland. It was one of the most important parties in Poland from its inception in 1892 until its merger with the communist Polish Workers' ...

divided itself in 1906. Its primary goal was transform

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into a socialist country, established through

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, and likely a member of some international communist country. Its opposition was the Polish Socialist Party - Revolutionary Faction (also known as Old Faction – ''Starzy'') which wanted to restore independent Poland, which was envisioned as a representative democracy. PPS–L for a time gathered most of the former PPS members, but with the failure of the

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and corresponding

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, it has lost popularity. In 1909 PPS–FR renamed itself back to ''Polska Partia Socjalistyczna'' (Polish Socialist Party); the increasingly marginal PPS–L – opposing the First World War and supporting the

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– eventually merged with

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in 1918 to form the

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. One member of Lewica was elected to the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine at the

Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets ( uk, Другий Всеукраїнський з'їзд Рад) was a congress of soviets (councils) of workers, peasants, Red-army-men deputies that took place in Katerynoslav (Dnipro) on March 17-19, 19 ...

in Katerynoslav ( Dnipropetrovsk) on 19 March 1918. Prominent activists of the PPS–L were:

Maria Koszutska Maria Karolina Sabina Koszutska (pseudonym ''Wera Kostrzewa'') (2 February 1876, Główczyn – 9 July 1939, Moscow) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish Socialist Party "Left" faction ''(Polska Partia Socialistyczna, PPS — Lewic ...

Feliks Kon Feliks Yakovlevich Kon (18 May 1864 – 30 July 1941) was a Polish communist activist, politician, ethnographer, publicist and journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of the Soviet satirical magazine, '' Krokodil''. Life and career Born in ...

, Stefan Królikowski, Paweł Lewinson, Henryk Walecki and Tadeusz Rechniewski. PPS–L was recreated in 1926 by PPS activists who opposed PPS involvement with

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...

(particularly in the aftermath of his May Coup). It was delegalized in 1931.

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