Word: kultura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholastic fame for the fervor of his pro-Stalinist views. But even before the Soviet 20th Party Congress, Kolakowski had established himself as the leader of the group of passionate dissenters now known as the enragés ("the enraged ones"). Last month, in Warsaw's Nowa Kultura, Kolakowski published a four-part critique that flays the Soviet order, and inferentially Wladyslaw Gomulka, with the cold-steel precision of a surgical scalpel...
Communist Everyman. Politically, Kolakowski cannot speak with an authority comparable to Yugoslavian Dissenter Milovan Djilas. But intellectually, he strikes more deeply at the Communist mystique. In his Nowa Kultura series, Kolakowski casts himself in the role of a Communist Everyman. First, he asks why so many party intellectuals have withdrawn from activity and buried themselves in non-political work and a general effort to avoid responsibility. The answer, he says, is that the party is driving its supporters into passivity by denying them the right of dissent...
...enragés are not able to present any program of a 'moral' policy which would not lead at once to a national catastrophe and to the annihilation of Socialism." Kolakowski's supporters heard that he will be barred immediately from writing for Nowa Kultura, may even face a trial and expulsion from the Communist Party. But whoever moves against Kolakowski and what he represents in Poland must move carefully, for the memory of Poznan is still fresh...
...exist under Soviet socialism, has been echoed in the satellite states. A Hungarian magazine recently asserted that there are 10,000 prostitutes in Budapest. In Poland, according to Radio Gdansk, there are 230,000 professionals. In a survey of Communism's old "ostrichlike policy," Salomon Lastik in Nowa Kultura reports that half of the prostitutes in Warsaw are below 25 years of age and of these one in three is not yet 18, proving them "a generation which has matured in the conditions of the People's Republic of Poland." Most juvenile prostitutes Lastik describes as the victims...
...reporting in every other Communist society. Instead, Warsaw's dailies and literary weeklies bitterly attacked Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu (Speaking Frankly), ran staff-written stories that denounced Russian intervention, ranked with Western press coverage for honest, vivid reporting...