Z DZIEJÓW RECEPCJI W POLSCE RADZIECKIEJ LITERATURY DLA DZIECI I MŁODZIEŻY
SOVIET LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POLAND

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author presents selected problems of the acceptance of Soviet literature for children and young people in Poland. The Soviet book for the young reader was already known in Poland between the wars. It met with the open recognition of the readers and was on the whole positively received by the critics. However true success for this kind of literatureсаmе after the Second World War. Most numerous were the translations of the works of writers from the Russian Soviet Federative Republic. The author, however, limits her research to the acceptance of the books for the young reader in the rest of the Republics of the Soviet Union. The interest of Polish editors and translators is mostly found in the first fifteen years after the war (1945 - 1960). Almost all the republics, with the exception of Moldavia and Kirgizia, found acceptance for their literature in Poland. But the books from Georgia, Estonia, the Ukraine and Armenia were especially popular. Folk tales and fairy stories comprised the main bulk of the translation. In the given period there were more than sixteen different collections and some of these were published more than once. Besides fables and fairy tales there were also published in Poland other forms of literature such as the novel, the short story for very young children, and the novella. At that time these books were read by almost all Polish young people, because they fitted perfectly the ideological concepts of education of those years. Special attention was given to the themes of war and defence at that period. There was also no lack of works on environmental problems. Historical and biographical books were rarely published. At that time about 80 publications appeared, comprizing over one and a half million volumes. All these translations, although significant in quantity, found insufficient reflection among Polish critics.

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