Polityka – la revue intellectuelle de référence de la Pologne socialiste et sa domestication post 1989
Polityka - the leading intellectual journal of socialist Poland and its post-1989 domestication

Summary/Abstract: Polityka is a Polish intellectual Review created after the 1956 poststalinism crisis to help reform real socialism and make it acceptable for the "Polish liberal intelligentsia". This review managed to recreate within the existing regime the Polish intellectual center-left tradition carried on by different cultural reviews from the end of the XIXth century. This center-left tradition was in competition with the ethno-nationalist tradition carried on by large sectors of the Catholic Church. Polityka team played an important role at the end of the Soviet block in 1988-89 when its former Chief redactor became the First Secretary of the ‘communist’ party leading it toward social-democracy. In the same time Polityka became more and more oriented toward the new Polish ‘managers’ and ‘yuppies’ at a moment traditional intelligentsia ceased to play an important role in the neoliberal society.

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