Członkowie Związku Młodzieży Polskiej w województwie lubelskim wobec Kościoła katolickiego– przyczynek do dziejów mentalności młodzieży
Members of the Union of Polish Youth (ZMP) in the Lublin Province In Relation to the Catholic Church – A Contribution to Young People’s Outlooks

Summary/Abstract: One of the missions the communists set themselves was to change the outlook of the young Poles. One of the ways they wanted to do this was by eliminating the influence of the Catholic Church on them and trying to secularise them. The main role in the implementing of this plan was to be played by the Union of Polish Youth (ZMP) created in 1948, the only official youth organisation at the time. The aim of the article is to show whether in the years 1948–1956 the members of the Union changed their attitude towards the Catholic Church and if the possible change was a result of the ideological activity of their organisation. This problem has been discussed based on the behaviour of the youth in the Lublin province (województwo), where the majority consisted of a rural population which was strongly attached to Catholicism. The first part of the article describes the members of the Union’s behaviour, which show their attachment to the Catholic Church. On the other hand there was the behaviour of another part of the Union, of those who had already gone through the mental transformation.

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