Rozmowy Polaków przy wódce. Rok 1951
Conversations of Poles drinking vodka. Th e year 1951

Author(s): Marcin Zaremba
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: 1951; public opinion; Stalinism; Julia Brystygier
Summary/Abstract: Th e aim of the article is to discuss the most important topics of private conversationsof Poles during the culmination of Stalinism in 1951. Th e “pępkowe” (navel) ritual(a celebration of the birth of a baby, usually held among men) has been used as thestarting point for the analysis. Despite the public opinion being suppressed, frightened,the topics for conversation were numerous. Th ey included, among others, conversationsabout shortages and queues, the polio epidemic, show trials, the expected outbreak ofWorld War III, changes to the borders, collectivization. Th e article also discusses theonly known sociological study from that time, commissioned by Julia Brystygier.

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