The text explores the role of censorship in shaping the contents of school textbooks published in the Polish People's Republic. An analysis of archival documents of the censorship office, primarily from the Stalinist era, reveals that censors not only removed content undesirable from the communist authorities' perspective but also demanded that school textbooks be saturated with political propaganda. Although the materials concerning the post-1956 period are much more laconic, censorship operated until the end of the communist system in Poland, leaving its mark not only on the editorial footer of each book, where the censor's code was listed, but also influencing the ideological control exercised at every stage of a textbook's creation, at the desks of the authors, the publisher and the Ministry of Education.
Joanna Wojdon (Wed,) studied this question.