The Stalinist Reception of Stanisław Brzozowski’s Philosophy: The Case of Paweł Hoffman
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2019

The Stalinization of Polish artistic, cultural, and academic life began around 1947, even though the breaking point for Polish literature was the Writers' Congress held in Szczecin in January 1949.As Zbigniew Jarosiski, the author of a book on Polish Socialist Realism notes, "at the very beginning, socialist realism was manifested in a few vague slogans based on the solid conviction that Polish art should be socialist, which meant both realist and faithful to the Party." 1 These initially vague