The school of “creative thinking about Poland”. Tygodnik Mazowsze as a journalistic platform for oppositional polemics during the martial law Cover Image

Szkoła „twórczego myślenia o Polsce”. „Tygodnik Mazowsze” publicystyczną areną dla opozycyjnych polemik w okresie stanu wojennego
The school of “creative thinking about Poland”. Tygodnik Mazowsze as a journalistic platform for oppositional polemics during the martial law

Author(s): Paweł Wierzbicki
Subject(s): History
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Underground Publishing; Underground Press; Uncensored Publications; Tygodnik Mazowsze; Independent Self-Governing Trade Union “Solidarity”; Anti-Communist Opposition

Summary/Abstract: Tygodnik Mazowsze, an illegal periodical of the opposition concentrated around the then-banned “Solidarity” trade union, was one of the most important opinion-forming magazines during the martial law and the years that followed (1982-1989). It was available throughout Poland. Its circulation would reach even few thousand copies. The weekly served as a platform for discussion and polemics on the most important issues for the opposition at the time: the organizational model, the role of the Catholic Church, the attitude towards the communist government. It was also a forum where many different concepts of what the activities of the banned “Solidarity” trade union should look like clashed.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 34-35
  • Page Range: 107-124
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish