The process of liquidation of the workers’ publishing collective “Prasa-Książka-Ruch” Cover Image

Przebieg procesu likwidacji Robotniczej Spółdzielni Wydawniczej „Prasa–Książka–Ruch”
The process of liquidation of the workers’ publishing collective “Prasa-Książka-Ruch”

Author(s): Marta Polaczek-Bigaj
Subject(s): Economy, Economic history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: Workers’ publishing collective; liquidation; transformation; The Round Table; monopoly; Sławomir Tabkowski; Polish United Workers’ Party;

Summary/Abstract: The text is about the process of liquidation of Workers’ Publishing Collective “Prasa-Książka-Ruch”, which had been a particularly important element of political system in The Polish People’s Republic. The author says that this subject is not widely presented in the literature. Furthermore, she claims that for proper understanding of dismantling, she had met with the former last chairman of the Collective. Those meetings had given her a chance to write about aspects which hasn't often been presented in the literature. The text presents all the aspects and ways of liquidation but also shows main disadvantages of this process. Main signification has the act from 22nd March 1990 which started the liquidation. The author presents that the most important defect of this document was preparing the act in rush and lack of consciousness of the difficulty of this process. Accordingly, it caused many negative opinions about all the process.

  • Issue Year: XII/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 97-109
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish