RADZIECKA ROSYJSKA PROZA DZIECIĘCA I MŁODZIEŻOWA O TEMATYCE WSPÓŁCZESNEJ W POLSCE W LATACH 1945 - 1965
SOVIET RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN THE OPINION OF POLISH CRITICS IN THE YEARS 1945 - 1965

Summary/Abstract: The present article is devoted to the problem of reception of Soviet Russian litera­ture for children and youth on contemporary topics in Poland in 1945 - 1965. After the presentation of general problems of publishing in Poland after 1945 and characteristics of the tendencies concerning Polish literature for children and youth the author discussed different stages of reception of Russian literature for children. The course and character of this reception was dependent on cultural policy and the tendencies in the native production for children and youth. According to the principle adopted in Poland there were separated the following stages: The first period spanning the years 1945 - 1948 is the period of exploration and first attempts to recognize the output of Soviet writers; The second period — the years 1949 - 1955 was the period of unusual and often artificially stimulated intensity of attempts to familiarize the reading public with every- thing that was appearing at that time in the Soviet Union; The third period after 1955 is the period of revaluation of judgements and critical evaluations and the selection of works which occupied important places in the contem­porary Soviet literature and proudly represented it. The research of the author was of necessity presented here in short and cursorily. It allows, however, to make the statement that Soviet literature for children and youth was no doubt most numerously represented in Polish translations in the period discussed and experienced unusual success. Our research proved also the opinions of critics that the role of the Soviet literature for children and youth was a major one in the develop­ment of Polish literature for young readers.

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