What is surprising in Virginia Woolf’s essays is the scale and the audacity of her intellectual searches – in the time of increased repressive censorship and growing totalitarianisms, she approached the themes of freedom ...

The article analyzes the censorship board’s reception of Kazimierz Truchanowski’s novel cycle The Mills of the God, published between 1961 and 1967. The analysis gives an insight into the interesting process of the growing ...

W artykule zostały omówione sposoby prezentowania sektora spożywczo-restauracyjnego w powojennej prasie łódzkiej. Badaniu poddano wybrane artykuły z „Dziennika Łódzkiego” oraz „Expressu Ilustrowanego” z lat 1949–1956. ...

The paper presents activities of the printing house founded in 1787 at the Jesuit College in Polotsk. The printing house became an academic printing house in 1812; it ceased to exist at the time of the dissolution of the ...

The article discusses the reception of Franz Kafka’s novels and the so-called “dark literature”, popular after 1956, by the censorship board. It presents the discussions around Kafka’s work and various interpretational ...

The main goal of the article is to offer a description of cryptotexts of theatre staging handbooks and dramatic works created in Poland during the socialist realism period. A cryptotext is a secret text which is the result ...

Stefan Żeromski’s Journals concern mostly matters of intellectual (book, theatre, and exhibition reviews, writing techniques) and personal character, with the latter including some very intimate material. Żeromski was an ...

Temat powstania warszawskiego od momentu jego zaistnienia podlegał licznym manipulacjom aż do całkowitego wyeliminowania w okresie stalinowskim. Dopiero okres liberalizacji kultury oraz zmniejszenie skali „represji” GUKPPiW ...

The ritual as a series of actions specified by traditions or a given political system, defined in detail and repeatable, was also fulfilled in the communist system. There it was aimed at introducing and amalgamating the ...