Centralna Akcja Szkoleniowa w Turawie w 1946 roku. Przyczynek do powojennych dziejów Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego w państwie komunistycznym
The Turawa Central Training Action in 1946. A Study of the Post-war History of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association in the Communist State

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to present one of the most important events in the post-war history of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, i.e. the second “edition” of the Central Training Action (II CAS). The first, major part of the article deals with the training procedures in this youth organisation implemented on the territories newly incorporated to Poland, whereas the second part illustrates the activities performed by the communist Ministry of Public Security against the scouting organisation, which sooner or later had to run afoul with the Soviet-inspired state. The study undertakes the issue of the lack of scouting instructors directly after the World War II and it situates this problem in the history of Poland and Upper Silesia of this period. The course of the training action in Turawa illustrates the ideological idiosyncrasy and the organisation’s situation in the conditions of the communist state, the post-war reconstruction of Poland and the foundation of the totalitarian state, with the emphasis on the communist Ministry of Public Security.

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