O rosyjskim pierwodruku Medalionów Zofii Nałkowskiej z perspektywy instytucjonalnej cenzury
On the Russian First Printing of Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions: Institutional Censorship Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the impact of institutional censorship in the former Eastern Bloc on Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions series. Adopting a broad research perspective, the article understands the censorship of literature as a means of constructing a worldview that legitimizes official authority. In this case, it focuses on the specific depiction of World War II. The focus is on the editorial fate of the Russian translation of the work, published in the USSR in 1974 as part of a collection of contemporary Polish novels. However, contextual issues related to the censorship of the work and its reception in Poland also arise.According to research, the delay in the publication of the Russian translation of Nałkowska’s work was caused by the interference of Soviet censorship (Glavlit), while the inclusion in a two-volume collection with a loosely related introduction was an attempt by the editors of the volume to mask meanings that were inconsistent with the dominant propaganda view of the war.

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