ABSTRACT
On December 6, 1986, General Wojciech Jaruzelski established a "social consultative council," intended to act as an institutional instrument "in the process of consulting and planning as well as management and government, in a manner that would conform to the conditions of the socialist system and strengthen the rationality and effectiveness of • the government." The 271council was attached to the Council of State, presided over by Jaruzelski himself.
