Popularyzacja książki rolniczej i czytelnictwa fachowego na wsi a wytyczne IX Plenum KC PZPR (na przykładzie województwa wrocławskiego)

Bolesław Bierut’s paper The task of the party in the struggle to raise the standard of living of working people in the current period of socialist construction presented at the 9th Plenary Convention of the Central Committee of the PUWP (29-30 October, 1953) became the basis for formulating the thesis published prior to II Congress of the PUWP (16 January, 1954). In the struggle for the growth of agricultural production and for the socialist reconstruction of the countryside, the whole society needed to participate; the librarians played an important role in popularizing the agricultural and technical literature. The author enumerated activities and commitments undertaken in this area throughout the country, focusing in particular on the commitments undertaken by public libraries of the Wrocław voivodeship. The basis for the study were archival materials from the Presidium’s of the Provincial National Council Department of Culture (1953-1954) available at the State Archives in Wrocław.