ABSTRACT

Polish language textbooks were the most numerous and voluminous of all primary school textbooks, because the subject was taught in all grades and during the highest number of lessons. The authors, as in the case of other disciplines, were either academics, teachers or ministerial officials, or, specifically for this subject, writers. There were two kinds of textbooks: readers and grammars. The People's Republic of Poland was claimed to be the fulfilment of the dreams of many generations of Poles and the culmination of years of struggle for national and social liberation. The progress of civilization in the People's Republic of Poland was one of the leading topics of textbook propaganda. Life in the countryside enjoyed considerable attention from Polish language textbooks. Usually the textbooks concentrated on the most topical issues. Agrarian reform was promoted in the first post-war years as the fulfilment of the eternal dreams and aspirations of peasants and as the implementation of historical justice.