Peasant Culture in the Polish Press 1944-1948: Warszawa and Debates on Postwar Poland’s Cultural Model Cover Image
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Kultura chłopska w optyce prasy społeczno-kulturalnej lat 1944-1948. „Warszawa” i dyskusje nad modelem kultury powojennej Polski
Peasant Culture in the Polish Press 1944-1948: Warszawa and Debates on Postwar Poland’s Cultural Model

Author(s): Bożena Karwowska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Media studies, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: social and cultural press; culture in the Polish People’s Republic; folk literature; working class; Warszawa;

Summary/Abstract: The article explores early attempts at creating a model of postwar Polish culture based on the values of folk culture. Seeing peasant literature and culture as a better alternative to a politically enforced model of culture of workers as leaders of the working class, journalists publishing in Warszawa made it difficult (if not impossible) to depict the realities of Polish villages during the German occupation, and especially to examine peasants’ attitudes towards Jews hiding in villages and the surrounding areas.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 209-220
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish