Propaganda Poetry in the Electoral Campaign to the First Term Sejm of the Polish people’s Republic of 26 October 1952. Its Subject – Imagery – Policy Cover Image

Poezja agitacyjna w kampanii wyborczej do Sejmu PRL pierwszej kadencji z 26 października 1952 r. Tematyka – Obrazowanie – Polityka
Propaganda Poetry in the Electoral Campaign to the First Term Sejm of the Polish people’s Republic of 26 October 1952. Its Subject – Imagery – Policy

Author(s): Andrzej Zaćmiński
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Oral history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Polish People’s Republic; elections to the Sejm of the People’s Poland of the first term

Summary/Abstract: The first election to the Sejm of the Polish People’s Republic took place on 26 October 1952, and it was a model example of parliamentary election in a totalitarian system. One of the agitation forms during the electoral campaign was occasional socialist realism poetry. The purpose of the present article is a response to two questions: what topics, i.e. “poetic material” was brought up in agitation poems, and what was their propagandistic aspect in the context of persuasive strategy used in the electoral campaign; whether the agitation through poetry was guided by any policy and what where underlying peculiarities that determined the propagation of such poems.

  • Issue Year: 50/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 181-214
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Polish