„Kierunek, któremu na imię nowoczesność”. Socjalistyczna modernizacja w świetle pamiętników chłopskich w tomie Ta ziemia jest nasza
“The direction called modernity”. Socialist modernisation in the light of peasant diaries in the volume this land is ours

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the relationship between modernity and peasantry in peasant diaries of the Polish People’s Republic, and interpreted from the perspective of transdisciplinary cultural analysis; it focuses on diaries published in 1969 under the title This Land is Ours [Ta ziemia jest nasza]. Following contemporary historians, the author assumes that the period of 1944–1956, which the diaries cover, was a time of accelerated modernisation and social revolution, and one of the key elements of these processes was the land reform announced by the manifesto of the Polish Committee of National Liberation in 1944. The period covered by the diaries is therefore the time of the socialist “leap into modernity”. In striving to ascertain how the changes related to the fundamental elements of socialist modernisation were perceived by diarists, the author analyses the narratives in three dimensions: literacy, modernisation of the countryside, and changes in the rules of citizenship. By doing so, she shows that the said diaries may contribute to a better understanding of this period.

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