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After World War II Poland became a Soviet puppet state. It enforced serious system changes, including changes in the politics of publishing and education. On October 1, 1951 the Ministry of Culture and Arts published The List of Books Subjected to Withdrawal (Wykaz książek podlegających wycofaniu) and the librarians were appointed by the party authorities as responsible for clearing bookshops and libraries of ideologically harmful books. The article presents the course of the abovementioned action on the basis of Cracow libraries with particular focus on the Municipal Public Library run by Józef Korpała. The party authorities carried out their policy on libraries and librarians ruthlessly and consequently which was shown by the political pressure exerted on director J. Korpała to subordinate to callous rules of censorship
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The main scientific objective of this article is to present the history and functioning of libraries in Lodz and the Lodz region in the years 1945-1953: development of libraries, promotion of reading, as well as documenting the course of propaganda and destruction of books incompatible with the political needs of the central government in this period.
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Hythloday in the Library of InfotopiaThanks to infotopia, which nowadays has a role of strengthening the interpersonal communication, building society networks and civilization development, utopia has an opportunity to overcome negative stigma, and during the XXI century will stop being considered as an enemy of the open society. We can only hope that colonized cyberspace will only symbolize creative powers of technological utopia.
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The article concerns the activities of the Storehouse of Secured Libraries of Katowice. Since 1950 it was responsible for liquidation of other storehouses of that kind in Poland, especially for “assault operation in Wrocław”. Such term was used by Franciszek Szymiczek, the director of the ZKZ when describing the burdensome nature of liquidation activities. This resulted in the grinding of majority of over 800,000 books and journals hitherto stored in the ZKZ of Wrocław and the Wrocław University Library in 1951. The article contains previously unknown information about the provenance of the stored books and the methods of their division. The style and results of actions undertaken by the ZKZ were highly dependent on external factors, political and industrial, resulting from the implementation of the 6-year plan, as well as logistic capabilities and capacities of hired personnel.
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The aim of the article is to study the maladjustment of the paneuropean ideals to the social andnational expectations in the interwar Poland, a fragmentary evidence of which can be found inthe dangerous – in a political sense – philo-German propaganda messages in Burdecki’s story,and indirectly, also the history of this author – wrongly understanding the national interests.Burdecki’s literary utopia proves that the ideas sublimed from literary fiction can be useful in forming research questions and analyzing the socially fixed thinking and acting stereotypes.Searching for good political solutions requires confrontation with thinking stereotypes. Suchis the conclusion of this draft, dedicated to waiting for the realization of the united Europeproject.Key words: Paneurope, German revanchism, interwar period, Feliks Burdecki, utopia
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Niedługo po XX Zjeździe KPZR nastąpiły zmiany destalinizacyjne we wszystkich państwach „bloku socjalistycznego”. Biblioteki publiczne okaleczone akcjami oczyszczania księgozbiorów z dzieł podlegających natychmiastowemu usunięciu na próżno upominały się o ich zwrot w Centralnym Zarządzie Bibliotek Ministerstwa Kultury i Sztuki (pisma nr 1–4). Na początku 1958 roku bibliotekarzom rozesłano Wskazówki w sprawie postępowania z drukami zbędnymi (pismo nr 5), zabraniające pozbywania się podstawowych dzieł Marksa, Engelsa, Lenina i Stalina. Bibliotekarzy ponownie starano się wykorzystać w propagandowej grze prowadzonej przez ideologów Polski Ludowej ze społeczeństwem
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In 1728, on the initiative of the Grand Lodge of England, the first Italian Freemasonry Lodge was founded in Naples. Twenty years later its leader was Prince of Sansevero, Raimondo di Sangro, a person veiled in demonic legend, a scientist and inventor well known in Europe. Ineffective interventions of the church and state authorities directed against the Lodge only contributed to its greater popularity. Lodges were entered by people of all social layers and professions: noblemen, priests and monks, writers, merchants, craftsmen, the court elite, the military corps officers, and scientists. Their imagination was evoked by the theatrical imagery and the phraseology of fraternity, which allowed them to believe that freemasonry would replace the feudal state structures. The outbreak of the French Revolution caused a sudden turn in the internal politics of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and the Masons immediately became the greatest public enemies. Some of them left the Lodge, while others set up Jacobin Clubs in order to overthrow the monarchy. Freemasonry Lodges, although they might have seemed ridiculous because oftheir rituals, were in fact popularizing the ideas of Enlightenment and forming the new social ethics.
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Antonio Possevino (SJ) was an extraordinarily talented papal legate in Poland and otherEuropean countries, and the author of the monumental Catholic-bibliographical work Bibliotheca selecta. In 1587 he was sentenced to internal, life-long banishment, due to unfavourable changes in the attitude of the Society of Jesus towards Christians of Jewish origin, as well as due to calumnious attacks of his political opponents. This article supplements the existing knowledge on the subject and enriches it with new interpretations.
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The notion of “the struggle of the cadastre” appears in the Italian historiography with reference to the reform and, at the same time, revindication tendencies which occurred both in the North and in the South of the Apennine Peninsula in the second half of the 18th century. On the basis of his own archival research, the author attempts to illustrate that phenomenon with the example of the community of San Martino Valle Caudina, situated between Naples and Benevento, where the unjust division of the land estates was the cause of numerous repetitive tensions and social disturbances, dating back to the 16th century. The reform of the cadastre, introduced at the order of Charles Bourbon in the forties of the 18th century, created the hope of improvement of the conditions of existence among the Neapolitan populace, because it forced the barons to document the feudal naturę of their real estates - otherwise, they would be subject to taxation just like any other land. The introduced cadastral system was characterised, on the one hand, by bureaucratic pedantry of calculating details, and on the other, by the indifference to the enormous feudal and church eamings which were exempt from taxes. During the creation of the cadastre, it often happened that the “deputies“ yielded to the barons and closed their eyes to the false certificates produced by them, thus depriving the communities of additional income; there were also cases, however, when the communities conducted fierce debates with the barons at the Royal Chamber Sommaria over the classification of an estate of dubious origin, and even resorted to breaking the law, which happened in the town of San Martino Valle Caudina. The dramatic experience accelerated the process of social awareness maturity among the local population. When the revolution broke out and the civil war began in 1799, the republicans found solid support in San Martino V.C.Thanks to the complete cadastral documentation of 2200 Neapolitan communities, it is possible today to reconstruct the picture of king Charles VII’s subjects of that time; one can determine their social and professional structure, the property and the budgets of communities, church and secular institutions, the level and the type of farming, the demographic phenomena, the property and financial status,the level of literacy, and even the health condition. Today, the cadastre books constitute a monumental work of the Neapolitan reformers, and a priceless source of information about the Kingdom ofNaples in mid-18th century. However,  the author of this article did not stop at that, because he confronted the contents of the cadastre with the documentation of the church and feudal archives, which enabled him to deepen the conducted social analysis.
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Dramatic events during the 16th and 18th centuries were responsible for the destruction of part of the Vatican Archives including the documents on the Inąuisition and ecclesiastical censorship. Thus, it is worth drawing attention to the manuscript and uniąue print collection of Casanatense Library whose catalogue is considered a bibliographical guide, especially that  it contains almost all titles from the monographic bibliography of Inąuisition prepared by Emil van der Vekene. The author presents the stages of compiling that manuscript and print collection and discusses its contents. In the second part of the work, he makes an attempt at explaining the reasons for putting books in Index, groups them thematically and traces various cultural effects of papai censorship and increasing criticism of that institution, which was especially strong atthe end of the 18th century.
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The author of this article investigates the less-known facts of the 1799 Naples revolution, named by its participants a "passive revolution": special emphasis is placed on the population of the internally divided clergy of Naples. The Naples patriots, for most part the illuminated 'galantuomini" representatives of the gentry, clergy, university circles and wealthy townsmen, hoped that they would be able to direct the local people so that would pick up the mottos of the French revolution and liberate themselves from the servility, imposed on them throughout ages, for the sake of realization of the most vital social goals. Among those patriots with republican views there were many priests, monks, and even bishops, who claimed that the republican ideas are in accordance with the teaching of the gospel. In their political estimations the patriots of Naples counted on the favourable attitude and aid of the republican France. It turned out, however, that their calculations were wrong, as the truth the reality was deemed by the figures of occupants and robbers. Organized by cardinal Ruffo, the Army of the Holy Faith overturned the weak Republic of Naples, after which the rule of terror began, evoking great fear everywhere in Europe. At that time, many of the clergy who supported the Republic were guillotined. South Italy was left in mental stagnation which lasted many decade.
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The legend of the heroes of the “passive revolution” of 1799, the creators of the Parthenopean Republic, still affects the modern culture and political tradition of south Italy, formed in the area of the old Kingdom of Naples. One of the prominent figures of the Neapolitan Republic was the bishop of Vico Equense, Michele Natale, an owner of a private library. Bibliographic analysis of his collection, together with the ideas of social history and biographic facts, confirms the significant role of readership in devloping social awareness. The present article makes a contribution to the knowledge of world’s history, and suggests original methodologicalsolutions for researchers examining private book collections.
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