Cover
Copyright information
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Towards a synthesis
1 Censorship theory
Arguments in relation to literature
Arguments relating to censors' work
2 Content-related censorship
3 Author-related censorship
Accounting for the author
Authors viewed positively
Authors viewed negatively
Blacklisting, or the non-existent author
4 Publishers
5 Readers
6 The poetics of censors' reviews
7 A few words on censors in communist Poland: Towards a portrait
Working conditions
Social background and education

Errors and oversights
Personality
Part 2: Case studies
1 Between accommodation and resistance. Jerzy Andrzejewski
Popi ó ł i diament (Ashes and Diamonds)
Short stories
Bramy raju (The Gates of Paradise)
Idzie skacz ą c po g ó rach (He cometh leaping upon the mountains)
The missing 'opening night' scene
'Cuts' made on political and moral grounds
2 Stanis ł aw Lem as a writer for young readers?
Wywiad i atomy (Intelligence services and atoms)
Cz ł owiek z Marsa (The Man from Mars)
Szpital Przemienienia (Hospital of the Transfiguration)

Astronauci (The Astronauts)
Sezam i inne opowiadania (Sesame and other stories)
Ob ł ok Magellana (The Magellanic Cloud)
3 W ł adys ł aw Broniewski uncensored: 1949-1955
Wiersze zebrane (Collected poems), 1949
Wiersze zebrane (Collected poems), 1952
Wyb ó r poezji (Selected poems), 1950
Wiersze zebrane (Collected poems), 1955
Wiersze warszawskie (Warsaw poems) 1948, 1952
Nadzieja. Poezje (The Hope. Poems), 1951
Mazowsze i inne wiersze (Mazowsze and other poems), 1952
M ł odym do lotu. Wyb ó r wierszy (Poems for Youth. Selected poems), 1952

4 Jan Brzechwa, Irena Jurgielewiczowa and others. Children's and youth literature
The Case of Jan Brzechwa
The Case of Irena Jurgielewiczowa
Others
Children's literature and youth literature
A positive programme
Part 3: Authors' strategies
1 A model response. Tsarist censorship and censorship in the People's Republic of Poland
2 Aesopic language and porcelain puppies. Authors' strategies for dealing with censorship
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Stanis ł aw Lem
W ł adys ł aw Broniewski
Jan Brzechwa and other children's authors
Part 4: Contexts

Context 1: Literary studies
Wiedza Powszechna 1947-1950
Ossolineum 1948-1951
Ksi ą ż ka i Wiedza, 1948-1950
Pa ń stwowe Zak ł ady Wydawnictw Szkolnych 1948
Ł ó dzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe 1948-1951
Wydawnictwa r ó ż ne na T 1948-1956
Context 2. Ilya Ehrenburg's The Thaw and Polish censorship
Conclusion
Afterword. Ten years later
Bibliography
Index