CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Jankowski, Roman Lukasz |
|---|---|
| Title | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY AND CENSORSHIP AUTHORITIES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF POLAND |
| Summary | During the postwar-period, the Polish United Workers' Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, hereafter PZPR), the communist party of Poland, used the institution of the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Public Performances (Główny Urząd Kontroli Prasy, Publikacji i Widowisk, hereafter GUKPPiW) to control all media, including the press, books, theatre and arts, as well as radio and television broadcasts. This thesis analyzes print media and censorship practices during the period of the People’s Republic of Poland. Furthermore, the materials collected and analyzed as part of the theoretical framework on media and censorship in communist Poland are supplemented with interviews conducted by the author with the formal editorial staff of Tygodnik Powszechny, hereafter TP (Universal Weekly), considered the only magazine, which to some extent (determined by censorship) could contain views critical of the communist authorities. The aim of this analysis is to describe the situation of print media in People’s Poland, as well as to provide a background and a detailed description of Polish censorship. Furthermore, this thesis describes and analyzes the relationship between TP and censorship, concentrating on the latter’s practices, aiming at explaining the weekly’s ability to publish contents critical of the communist ideals. More specifically, this thesis concentrates on the procedures in place, the tactics used by the editors to ‘trick’ censors, as well as the process of negotiating as to what could and what could not be published. Finally, as TP is a Catholic weekly, its relationship with the hierarchy of the Polish Roman Catholic Church is also discussed. An extensive outline of the unique socio-political role of the Polish Roman Catholic Church in communist Poland accompanies the above analysis. |
| Supervisor | Siefert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/jankowski_roman.pdf |
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