“A book is not an inanimated object, but a question of life” – a book culture in the USSR in the 20-30s of the 20th century in the light of the “Theory of psychosphere and its bibliological method” by Antoni Wincenty Kwiatkowski (1890-1970)

Journal Title: Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi - Year 2018, Vol 12, Issue 0

Abstract

The article presents fragments of the text by Antoni Wincenty Kwiatkowski (1890-1970) „Theory of psychosphere and its bibliological method” signed with his alias Antoni Starodworski, and being stored in the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford Unviersity. This is a synthetic monography of a book culture in the USSR in the 20-30s of the 20th century. In the author’s interpretation, theory and practice of book studies agreed with marxist-lenninism ideology was a system of social engineering serving communist indoctrination, upbringing “a Soviet man” (homo sovieticus), as well as development of the communist society and the USSR.

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Jacek Puchalski

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  • EP ID EP431188
  • DOI 10.33077/zbkh.2018.12.puchalski
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Jacek Puchalski (2018). “A book is not an inanimated object, but a question of life” – a book culture in the USSR in the 20-30s of the 20th century in the light of the “Theory of psychosphere and its bibliological method” by Antoni Wincenty Kwiatkowski (1890-1970). Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, 12(0), 191-220. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-431188