Przemiany administracji terytorialnej w Polsce w latach 1944–1990

One of the outcomes of the political transformations initiated after the Second World War in Poland was the formation – in its assumptions – of a new system of state authority. That – in turn – led to the establishment of administration adjusted to those assumptions. This short study aims to show how the structure of the territorial administration looked like in the so-called People’s Republic of Poland in the years 1944–1990. It is based – primarily – on the sources of law which was binding in the period under analysis. The continual changes in the organization of the territorial administration in the period of the People’s Republic can be explained with questions of the strictly political character. So can the political and illusory nature of the elements of territorial local government which were introduced into the system of national councils in 1983, since a closer analysis of the legislation of that period, as well as the polity system, prove that in the system of national councils the building of the concept of territorial local government was impossible.