Messengers of the Free Word

Paris Prague Warsaw, 19681971

Bartosz Kaliski, Yelizaveta Crofts

• Editorial: Peter Lang Group
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783631834794
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Historia
• Categoría: Historia del mundo

The book presents an important and well known but so far not described episode in the history of banned books in the communist Poland – the activity of the so-called Tatra climbers. They were students and scholars from Warsaw, who initiated a risky cooperation with the centre of Polish political emigration in Paris – Kultura monthly. Inspired by the Prague Spring they tried to develop cooperation between the students from Eastern Bloc countries, smuggled books through the Polish-Slovak border, and gathered texts critical about communist rulers. After a few months, their activity was stopped by the Polish political police. The monograph shows the circumstances and motivations behind this dangerous activity of young people, traces the police investigation against them, and describes the mock trial in 1970.

Índice

• Cover
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Combating the Kultura Monthly
• Chapter 2 Where, How and by Whom Were Publications of the Instytut Literacki Read in 1960s Poland?
• Chapter 3 Roots and Political Initiation of the Main Characters
• Chapter 4 Kultura Team Toward the Prague Spring
• Chapter 5 The First Successes of the Conspirators
• Chapter 6 Mistakes and Failures of the Conspirators
• Chapter 7 Surveillance, Investigations, Directing the Trial
• Chapter 8 The Trial (Some Aspects)
• Was it Worth Being Against? An Epilogue
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACRONYMS
• Index of persons