Censorship of Erotic Themes in Literary Fiction in Poland in the Years 1948–1958. A review of research

The subject of the article is the moral censorship in Poland in the years 1948–1958.The history of the purification of erotic content from literary fiction published in the Polish language is long. Interference in works considered derogatory to morality, besides the invasion in political, anti-government, anti-religious (and therefore in general – anti-system) content, is the most durable and versatile directive. The author describes examples of moral censorship on examples of many important literary works: renewed, published for the first time and translated from foreign languages. All examples are based on source materials of the Central Audit Office for the Press Publications and Performances (GUKPPiW) team, stored in the Archives of New Records (AAN) in Warsaw