Ograniczenia wolności prasy w PRL
Restrictions of freedom of the presses in the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL)

Summary/Abstract: During the PRL, the press was treated as a political superstructure, which was an instrument of the ruling party's policy. The achievement was associated with the limitation of freedom of the press and subjecting it to the authority control, which had a wide range of measures to subjugate the press. Measures of the impact on the press can be divided into legal and extralegal. Preventive censorship, which, despite the legal base for action, also benefited from the means unregulated by law, escaped the division of this period. Legal ways of limiting the press had an influence on the content of publications – such as constraints related to the protection of personal rights and repressive censorship or relating to the registration of the press. Extralegal measures of influencing the press focused on the rationing of paper, the editorial policy of human resources and direct control of the content of press releases. The objective of this work is to present different ways of limiting the freedom of the press and answer the question of their usefulness and the role played by each of them throughout the process of controlling the press.

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