Metody działań organów bezpieczeństwa wobec duchowieństwa i wiernych Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w województwie koszalińskim w latach 1950–1975
Security Service Operations against the Clergy and Congregation of Roman Catholic Church in Koszalin Province in 1950–1975
Author(s): Konrad KonkolSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Governance, Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Roman Catholic Church; Security Service; Security Authorities; Koszalin Province; Polish People’s Republic; repressions; congregation; believers
Summary/Abstract: The end of the II WW brought Poland into the USSR’s influence zone. The 1940s was a decade which institutionalised the communist power imposed on every area of people’s lives. One of the most difficult task to implement was the secularization of polish society. Catholic world-view was one of the major factors that influenced their behaviour and way of thinking and meaningfully contrasted with atheism ‘recommended’ by the communists. That is why one of the Security Service priorities was clergy surveillance and repressions referred to undermine clergy’s authority as well as pulling back the believers away from the Roman Catholic Church learning. Those operations were equal in action in the whole country, including Koszalin Province, which was constituted in the summer of 1950.
Journal: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski
- Issue Year: 32/2017
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 79-123
- Page Count: 45
- Language: Polish