ABSTRACT
The role of civic education was one of the elements of total indoctrination that led to gaining control over the society and subjecting it to socialist power. During the era of the People's Republic of Poland (PRL), civic education was organized and carried out to prepare society to play a complex and clearly defined role in the socialist state: to submit to the will of the Polish United Workers' Party. The students are introduced to the citations of the social animal and to the forms of social life, including the roles and tasks of a family. Students can learn about the past and present authoritarian and totalitarian systems. Students learn about the struggles of Polish society against communism as well as the legal, institutional, cultural, and psychological factors that condition a civic society. Modern citizens must be aware of global problems and tasks, that is global awareness.
