Calendar of Cultural Life in Lodz (vol. 3) 16–30 April 1945 Cover Image

Kalendarium życia kulturalnego Łodzi (cz. 3) 16–30 kwietnia 1945
Calendar of Cultural Life in Lodz (vol. 3) 16–30 April 1945

Author(s): Przemysław Dakowicz
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Lodz in 1945;communist press;institutions of culture in Lodz;post-war fates of writers;calendar;literary life in Lodz;communist propaganda

Summary/Abstract: This publication, the third volume of the Calendar of Cultural Life in Lodz between 1945 and 1946 ("Kalendarium łódzkiego życia kulturalnego w latach 1945–1946"), focuses on the second half of April 1945, when cultural life was reorganised after more than five years of German occupation and terror. Spring 1945 was a peculiar period in the history of Lodz: in the face of the virtually complete annihilation of Warsaw, Lodz became the home of some of the Communist offices and was visited by prominent representatives of both intellectual and cultural life. They were offered apartments and jobs in the state-controlled press and hastily established cultural institutions and universities. Through a detailed denotation of facts related to history, politics as well as intellectual and artistic life, the author of the text makes an attempt to present the mechanisms and the dynamics of the earliest stage of the cultural and ideological revolution implemented in Poland between 1945 and 1948.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 407-450
  • Page Count: 44
  • Language: Polish