Do spółdzielni produkcyjnej i z powrotem. Przemiany własności w powojennych narracjach pamiętnikarskich
To the production cooperative and back again. Ownership transformations in post-war diary narratives

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses representations of the experience of changes in ownership in the diaries of Poles ideologically involved in creating production cooperatives in Poland after WWII. The author uses unpublished archival materials from the competition for “New Peasants Diaries” [Nowe pamiętniki chłopów, 1955–1956] and diaries published in the volumes Young Rural Generation of the Polish People’s Republic [„Młode pokolenie wsi Polski Ludowej”, 1963–1967]. The first part of the article focuses on the experiences and hopes associated with the process of creating socialist ownership and tries to answer the question of how cooperative members understood the challenges of the future in the context of socialism. Following this, the article analyses the diaries of rural youth. These narratives describe the process of liquidating the cooperatives and how the idea of production cooperatives existed after 1956.

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