Prasa Komitetów Obywatelskich w Polsce 1989-1990

Analiza geograficzna i statystyczna

Abstrakt

The article, consisting of three descriptive parts and the sources’ appendix with a list of 388 titles, is the first attempt to assemble press titles from the last phase of the phenomenon of the Polish Underground Press. The first part is a discussion of the historical role of Citizens’ Committees during the period of political transformation. The second part is the core of the paper , analysing issues such as the type and territorial range of committees that were publishing magazines, statistical data on the number of titles published in individual voivodeships (then and now), and in union regions. This part also includes information about the durability and printing techniques of these bibuła or underground periodicals. The third part is the conclusion collecting the most important results of the analysis.