„Polityka literacka” rosyjskiej cenzury zagranicznej w latach 1865–1904

Abstract

“Literary policy” of Russian foreign censorship in 1965–1904

(Summary)

Almost 4500 new literary publications in Polish (counting by titles) had been triedto bring in to Empire in 1865–1904. The foreign censorship banned from circulationalmost 1400 of these books – in a whole or in a part. These books were treated more lenient than others – because in 1872–1904 the censors prohibited only 29,7% of them, when nonfictional publications – 40,5%. The literary works weremore rarely than others banned in a whole. The censorship policy towards importedbelles-lettres became slowly less repressive, in spite that it had been changing: during 70. had occurred to be moderate, using various bans conditional upon subject; late 80. and the beginning of 90. it was a period of the strongest repressions, butthe second half of 90. and the beginning of XX century it was quite successful timefor belle-lettre import. ! e censorship hit books of Polish authors in the most severeway (which consisted of ¾ of all banned imported works), particularly directedto the people or to the general public or imported for the first time since theywere published and didn’t belong to any book series. The most banned author was Słowacki and next: Lenartowicz, Krasiński, Urbański, Poeche, Sienkiewicz (mainly versions adapted for children), Miłkowski (T. T. Jeż), Wilkońska, Przybyszewski, Abgarowicz, Rogosz, Zacharjasiewicz, Kasprowicz, Chociszewski, Tetmajer, Tuczyński,Mickiewicz, Asnyk, Wyspiański, W. Bełza, Przyborowski i Konopnicka.