Images of cruelty: preliminary research into the treatment of cattle and pigs in the Polish People’s Republic at the turn of the 1950s and the 1960s Cover Image

brazy okrucieństwa: wstęp do badań nad traktowaniem bydła i trzody chlewnej w Polsce Ludowej na przełomie lat pięćdziesiątych i sześćdziesiątych XX w.
Images of cruelty: preliminary research into the treatment of cattle and pigs in the Polish People’s Republic at the turn of the 1950s and the 1960s

Author(s): Dariusz Jarosz
Subject(s): Agriculture, Economic history, Social history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: animal studies; animal abuse; animals for slaughter; slaughterhouses; Polish People’s Republic;

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to outline the images of cruelty towards animals for slaughter in Poland at the turn of the 1950s and the 1960s. The source materials constituting the basis for the research are primarily the scarce archival documents found at the Archives of Modern Records and the Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance. The author seeks to determine at which stage of the animals’ life the level of cruelty was the highest, how the abuse was manifested, and what forms it took.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 80
  • Page Range: 369-384
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish