Not So Dark! The Central Committee’s Culture Department on the Certain Reprezentation of Daily Life


Abstract

The author demonstrates that literature can be an important historical source. On the basis of an analysis of the content, reception (mainly by the official censorship), and fate of the Student Satire Theater’s play It’s Not All the Same to Me the author outlines the characteristic features of Polish daily existence in the 1960s.


Keywords

satire; censorship; daily life in communist Poland


Published : 2017-01-30


Kula, M. (2017). Not So Dark! The Central Committee’s Culture Department on the Certain Reprezentation of Daily Life. Culture & Society, 61(1), 253-266. https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2017.61.1.13

Marcin Kula  j.m.kula@uw.edu.pl
University of Warsaw; Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Warsaw  Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5161-5027