Przejaw młodzieżowego buntu czy walki politycznej? : niezależne młodzieżowe czasopisma w Polsce lat 80. XX wieku

Abstract

A foundation of Committee on the Protection of Workers in 1976 and Independent Publishing House a year later, started a new period in the history of the contemporary culture characterized with an intensification of actions excluded from an official circulation. Taking into account the scope of influence of illegal enterprises, the most important was a printed word, magazines in particular. Bibliographies registering independent publishing houses between 1976 and 1990 inform about the existence of over 5841 magazines published by above all a political opposition, questioning the functioning of the Polish country subordinate to political assumptions of Polish United Workers Party. Particular social groups manifested their dissatisfaction with the reality, young people included. Almost 600 magazines edited by young people and prepared by adults, yet for a child were published between 1976 and 1990. On the basis of the analysis of selected contents, representative of this group of publishing houses one can state that they fulfilled an ideal-educational and educational and informative function. People responsible for a given magazine, especially adults, aimed at providing its readers with a particular system of values which made it possible to bring up a new generation aware of its rights, the right to freedom in particular, freedom of speech included. The press edited by young people, on the other hand, allowed for presenting their own individual opinions on surrounding reality and contacting peers of similar opinions at the same time.