Dookoła Świata
, 1954 - 1976
Dookoła świata [Around the World] magazine launched its preprint issue in December 1953, the same year Stalin died. It was intended to be a sort of travel magazine and formally started with issue 1 in January 1954 and folded in 1976. From the very beginning, the magazine was considered by its readers in Communist Poland as “a window to the external world”. It published articles from the other side of the Iron Curtain, when passports and permissions for travel abroad were rarely granted, effectively preventing people from exploring the world. It features reports from anywhere in the world and novels in installments, novellas and/or short stories, interviews, articles about art, essays, fun facts, and many more materials, attractive to the young reader.
Despite the large print run (around 350K copies), demand for the magazine was much higher, and people queued up, hoping that there would be enough copies for them to buy (cf. Polska Kronika Filmowa PKF 9/54, 7:14–8:57).
Bio prepared by Marta Pszczolińska, University of Warsaw, m.pszczolinska@al.uw.edu.pl
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