Legal propaganda in Communist Poland

Legal propaganda in Communist Poland

Tuesday, 7 February 2017 - 12:30pm
Venue: 
European Studies Centre
Speaker(s): 
Jaroslaw Kuisz (Polish Programme, St Antony’s College, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Chair: 
Lamprini Rori (A.G. Leventis Fellow, St Antony’s College)
Series: 
ESC Lunchtime Seminar

Visiting Academics’ Seminar Series

A light lunch will be provided

 

After the end of World War II, Poland witnessed a revolution imposed from the outside by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A legal revolution took place: radical changes were introduced by the means of terror and new legal acts, and the new rule of law was based on the anthropological concept of the new man in communism. Soon, with the tools of “Polish Newsreel” and full-length films, a massive action of communist legal propaganda was introduced.