The ''Czytelnik'' Publishing House ( pl, Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza „Czytelnik”) is a publishing company in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. It was established in 1944 behind the Soviet front line as the ''Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik"'' ("Czytelnik" Publishing Cooperative). As of now, it is the oldest post–World War II publisher in Poland.
[History of Czytelnik]
/ref> The word ''czytelnik'' means "reader" in Polish
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.
Intended to be located in Warsaw
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after the Nazi German withdrawal, it was temporarily headquartered in Lublin and Łódź
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. In July 1945 the headquarters were moved to Warsaw.[ Initially, the ''Czytelnik'' published newspapers, periodicals, as well as books. Since 1951 publishing of newspapers and periodicals was transferred to the Workers' Publishing Cooperative "Prasa" ("Press"), which was reorganized and greatly expanded in 1973 as the Prasa-Książka-Ruch ("Press-Book-Movement") monopoly financing the ]PZPR
The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other lega ...
until the end of Soviet domination.Communist Poland
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, described by Czesław Miłosz
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as Borejsza's "personal state-within-a-state for books and press". Borejsza was removed from his role during the ousting of Władysław Gomułka
Władysław Gomułka (; 6 February 1905 – 1 September 1982) was a Polish communist politician. He was the ''de facto'' leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948. Following the Polish October he became leader again from 1956 to 1970. G ...
in 1948, part of the Soviet-led campaign against the so-called "right-wing and nationalist deviation" in Polish Workers' Party
The Polish Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and merged with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 194 ...
.
Presidents
*1944: Jerzy Borejsza
*1948: Jerzy Pański
*1952: Jan Stefczyk
*1955: Ludwik Kasiński
*1975: Stanisław Bębenek
*1989: Wacław Sadkowski
*1990: Jerzy S. Sito
*1991: Stefan Bratkowski
*1992: Marek Bogucki
*1994: Włodzimierz Michalak
*1995: Marek Żakowski[
]
Book series
* Archiwum Kultury (English, "Culture Archive")
* Biblioteka Dwudziestolecia (English, "Library of the Interwar Period")
* Biblioteka Expressu Wieczornego (English, "Library of the Evening Express")
* Biblioteka Gazety Poznanskiej (English, "Library of Poznan Newspapers")
* Biblioteka Literatury Faktu XXX-lecia (English, "30th Anniversary of Fact Literature Library")
* Biblioteka Naukowa Mlodego Czytelnika (English, "Scientific Library of the Young Reader")
* Biblioteka Popularnonaukowa "Mathesis Polskiej" (English, "'Polish Knowledge' Popular Science Library")
* Biblioteka Powszechna (English, "Public Library")
* Biblioteka Romansow i Powiesci (English, "Library of Romance and Novels")
* Biblioteka Satyry (English, "Library of Satire")
* Biblioteka Szpilek (English, "Pins Library")
* Biblioteka Trybuny Wolnosci (English, "Library of Freedom Tribune")
* Biblioteka Uniwersytetow Robotniczych (English, "Library of Workers' Universities")
* Dom i Swiat (English, "Home and World")
* Klasycy Literatury XX Wieku (English, "Classics of 20th Century Literature")
* Kolekcja Polskiej Literatury Wspolczesnej (English, "Collection of Polish Contemporary Literature")
* Ksiazka Nowego Czytelnika (English, "New Reader's Book")
* Klub Dobrej Ksiazki (KDK) (English, "Good Book Club")
* Mala Biblioteczka Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechnej (English, "Little Library of Universal Knowledge")
* Maly Album Malarstwa Polskiego (English, "The Small Album of Polish Painting")
* Muzyczna Biblioteka Pedagogiczna (English, "Pedagogical Music Library")
* Nike (English translation (from Greek): "Victory")
* Nowy Sympozjon (English, "New Symposium")
* Oni Zmienili Swiat (English, "They Changed the World")
* Pamietniki kobiet (English, "Women's Diaries")
* Panorama (English, "Panorama")
* Pejzaże Kultury (English, "Cultural Landscapes")
* Piosenki Czytelnika (English, "Reader Songs")
* Poeci Polscy (English, "Polish Poets")
* Polska Krytyka Literacka (English, "Polish Literary Criticism")
* Prace Polskiego Instytutu Socjologicznego Studium Problemow Chlopskich i Robotniczych (English, "Works of the Polish Sociological Institute of the Study of Peasants' and Workers' Problems")Prace Polskiego Instytutu Socjologicznego
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* Prace Slasko-Dabrowskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciol Nauk (English, "Works of the Silesian-Dabrowski Society of Friends of Sciences")
* Seria z Faunem (English, "Series with Faun")
* Seria z Jamnikiem (English, "Series with a Dachshund")
* Studia z Dziejow Mysli i Ruchu Demokratycznego (English, "Studies from the History of Thought and the Democratic Movement")
* Symposion
* U Podstaw Wiedzy (English, "Basic Knowledge")
* Wiedza Powszechna (English, "Common Knowledge")
* Wielka wojna bialych ludzi (English, "Great War of the White People") - Polish translations of World War I
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novels by Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer, pacifist and socialist.
He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I.
Life and work
Zweig was born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia (now Głogów, Poland), the son ...
* Wielkie Problemy Dziejow Czlowieka (English, "Great Problems of Human History")
* Wzorowy Zawodowiec (English, "Exemplary Professional")
* Z Kosmonauta (English, "From the Cosmonaut")
* Z Prac Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (English, "From the works of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences")
* Z Prac Instytutu Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (English, "From the works of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences")
References
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1944 establishments in Poland
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