The article discusses Polish researches of old Polish press (until 1864). Main research fields, participants and their texts, as well as changes in the corps being surveyed which have taken place for last 65 years were presented. The output of the years 1945-2009 was analysed accurately, as well as selected works from before the WW2, including analysis of citation taken from the author’s base Polish Media Historiography Citation Index. Auxiliary also publishing statistics, and specialist research texts were surveyed.
The bibliography covers more important publications on the press and the media in general published in Poland either in 2002 or for the year 2002. In particular, historical and bibliographic issues have been presented in great detail. Both complete publications and press articles have been included.
Until the late seventies of the last century, the authorities of the People's Republic of Poland ,for political reasons, treated its citizens work trips to capitalist countries as an undesirable phenomenon, officially nonexistent. The information on Polish emigration of the time rarely appeared in the then press. The situation changed in the late 1980 and 1981 as a result of ongoing socio-political transformation. The press began to place reports on conditions of living outside Poland. Authors of a published material - depending on the political "inclination" of a newspaper where they were employed – either expressed sympathy for people’s fate in exile, or they mocked at their irrational decision to leave the country, or even accused of lack of patriotism and selling out to the "mammon", etc. The press releases at large, however, were characterized by considerable diversity both in a description of the exile as well as its assessment. The presented text attempts to reproduce the picture of the then Polish exile which Polish newspaper reader could have find in the official press.
The so-called 'Great Purge' taking place in the Soviet Union in 1936-1938 stirred great interest in the Polish press, which published assorted interpretations of the origin of Stalinist terror. One of its interpretation perceived Soviet terror as the outcome of Stalin's intentional steps towards the realisation of select targets. The majority of the journalists drew attention to the fact that the heart of the matter involved predominantly the organisation of an apparatus of power in order to safeguard the authority enjoyed by Stalin and to expand its range. This was the reason for the elimination of those who posed a threat to the dictator. Others indicated that repressions served as a tool for attaining further reaching objectives: the construction of a totalistic-bureaucratic centralised state ( perceived as a symptom of Thermidor, the end of the revolution) or a nationalisation or, more precisely, Russification of Bolshevism. According to the deterministic interpretations of the sources of terror it was to have been a product of the specific social, political and historical conditions prevailing in the Soviet Union. The Catholic press frequently indicated that Stalinist terror constituted a logical consequence of the implementation of the premises of Marxism-Leninism. On the other hand, the democratic press maintained that the bloody events in the Soviet Union sprung from the dictator-totalitarian nature of the local authorities. Another characteristic feature of the Polish press was interpreting the terror of 1936-1938 as an outcome of the impact exerted by Russian political tradition.
The bibliography lists all of Professor Jerzy Jarowiecki's publications dating from 2000-2010. This includes Professor's non-serial publications as well as reviews on him and his works.
The paper presents a review of how the news of the second Nobel Prize awarded to Maria Sklodowska-Curie, and of the slander campaign launched against her in connection with rumours concerning the awarding of the prize, was reported in the Polish press between September and December 1911; the study is based on materials found in the libraries of Warsaw and Wrocław. The major national dailies reported both aspects of the news, while provincial dailies concentrated only on the slander campaign. Some papers failed to report the news altogether. Only a number of weeklies carried news of the Nobel Prize, and monthlies that did publish articles on radioactivity did not mention the Nobel Prize.
The article discusses the history, layout, structure and contents of 'Pamietnik Warszawski' (Warsaw Diary) from the years 1809-1810. The periodical's structure is demonstrated to have similarities to its earlier editions dating back to 1801-1805. The instability and inconsistencies of its structure are shown to be a problem for a researcher. The article also provides a chronological overview of the periodical's sections and contents as well as demonstrates their relevance to various projects undertaken by the Society of Friends of Sciences.
The article deals with the presence of a broadly understood German theme in Polish iconographic satire in the years 1918-1939. The topic is discussed not according to the criterion of pictorial content but in a statistical quantitative perspective comparing the interest of caricaturists in other prominent issues and persons of those times that could be considered as personified 'heroes' of the caricatural messages. The German theme recurred in all the analyzed satirical journals regardless of the period of their publication and the political sympathies of their editors and satirists. For nearly the whole of the two interwar decades the leading journal was the Warsaw 'Mucha', at the beginning of the analyzed period it was the Lwów 'Szczutek', in the years 1926-1934 the most popular journal was 'Cyrulik Warszawski', in the years 1930-1939 the Kraków 'Wróble na dachu' and in the second half on the 1930s the Warsaw 'Szpilki' and the Wielkopolska 'Pokrzywy'. In the last pre-war years interest in broadly understood German issues dominated over Polish foreign policy and international issues in the coverage of iconographic satire.
The article discusses changes in Warsaw's cultural press using the example of the weekly 'Tygodnik Ilustrowany'. In 1905-1906, periodicals were published irregularly and were busy battling with preventive censorship. Journalists, literary critics and men of culture had to face new social problems resulting from the continuous expansion of socialist ideology. Articles by Jankowski, Prus and Reymont provide evidence of the uncertainties experienced by the Kingdom of Poland's cultural elites in the new reality.
Formal, legal and organisational changes started in Poland in the middle of 1989 that led to the establishment of a new democratic media system. The future of the 'Prasa-Ksiazka-Ruch' Workers' Publishing Cooperative was among the most important and hotly discussed subjects. The Cooperative's governing bodies made efforts to keep the company whole or at least postpone its liquidation. The article describes one such attempt based on information from internal sources.
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