Uwarunkowania wykorzystania prasowych źródeł ikonograficznych na przykładzie „Trybuny Ludu” w dawnej i współczesnej edukacji historycznej
Conditions for the Use of Press Iconographic Sources Based on the Example of “Trybuna Ludu” in Old and Contemporary Historical Education

Summary/Abstract: In school history education, but also outside of it, the newspaper “Trybuna Ludu” (TL) is quite often mentioned. Most often it is mentioned as a source to demonstrate the propagandic nature of the press in “people’s” Poland. For this purpose, newspaper texts are used, and less often, illustrative material, but in the study of the history of histori- cal education in that period they should not be omitted. To properly understand and describe this, one must take into account the nature of the press source itself, as deter- mined by the status of the newspaper in the broadly understood information system of Poland during the years 1944–1989. For this purpose, an analysis was made of party documents specifying the criteria for disseminating illustrative materials in the context of specific examples from TL. Generally speaking, it can be said that among the mass of iconographic sources from “people’s” Poland used in history teaching then and now, those from TL occupy a special place. They should be seen as specific content and considered a tool for creating socio-political reality. The image of the broadly understood personal structure of power in the Polish People’s Republic that was developed in this newspaper is a model that should also be disseminated through other media.

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