“Books for youth […] should depict […] the sensitive mechanism of class struggle”. Szczecin Plenum of the Principal Board of Polish Writers, August 1951 Cover Image

„Książki dla młodzieży […] powinny przedstawiać […] czuły mechanizm walki klasowej”. Szczecińskie Plenum Zarządu Głównego Związku Literatów Polskich, sierpień 1951 r.
“Books for youth […] should depict […] the sensitive mechanism of class struggle”. Szczecin Plenum of the Principal Board of Polish Writers, August 1951

Author(s): Marta Nadolna-Tłuczykont
Subject(s): Library and Information Science, Other, Studies of Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: cleansings; interwar period; literature for children and youth; Polish People’s Republic; Polish Writers’ Association; social realism; stalinism

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at showing the situation of literature for children and youth during the first years after the conclusion of World War II. Based on the materials from the Szczecin Plenum of the Principal Board of Polish Writers, which was held in August 1951, the views of the political leadership on the literature for youth were outlined. These tendencies, with certain changes and varying intensity, continued throughout the Polish People’s Republic period.

  • Issue Year: 23/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 123-133
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish