The paper focuses on censorship bureau’s approach to the subject of the Home Army in Polish within the period of the liberalization of culture, 1956-1958. The research mainly focusses on the identification of censorship ...

The subject of this article is combating adult illiteracy in the People’s Republic of Poland. The existing knowledge concerning the topic has been supplemented with the analysis of the archival documents, currently beingin ...

Stefan Żeromski’s Journals focus mostly on matters of intellectual (books, theatre, and exhibition reviews, writing techniques) and personal character, with the latter in¬cluding some very personal material. Żeromski was ...

The article analyzes the reception of Kazimierz Truchanowski’s novel cycle “The Mills of the God”, published between 1961 and 1967, by the censorship bureau. The analysis offers insight into the interesting process of ...

This article seeks to identify some of the uses of „the index of books to be immediately excluded” issued by the Ministry of Culture and Arts in 1951. At that time, decrees of the sort specified inventories of books permitted ...

The subject of this paper is the writing activity of Stanisław Czernik in 1949. Czernik was an esteemed writer but concurrently he worked as censor in The Ministry of Culture and Art. He reviewed novels of many writers in ...

This paper focusses on those literary competitions organized by the Ministry of Culture and Arts in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The analysis of the materials from archives offered a chance to tackle the issues: these ...

During the political “thaw” of 1955−1956 the magazines circulated in the People’s Republic of Poland started to include themes which previously had been banned. One of those focused on the existence of censorship and its ...