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Archiwum Państwowe w Częstochowie, Komitet Wojewódzki Polskiej Zjednoczonej Partii Robotniczej w Częstochowie, sygn. 87, sygn. 124
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Pielgrzymki Jana Pawła II do Krakowa w oczach SB. Wybór dokumentów, oprac. R. Łatka, Kraków 2013.
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Ruch pielgrzymkowy na Jasną Górę 1945-1989. Wybór dokumentów, red. ks. W. P. Wlaźlak, A. Sznajder, Katowice 2009.
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Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej IPN.
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„MŁODE POKOLENIE […] PRAGNIE ABY RODZINA POLSKA BYŁA CHRZEŚCIJAŃSKA” – PROBLEMATYKA WYCHOWANIA MŁODZIEŻY W DOKUMENTACH SŁUŻBY BEZPIECZEŃSTWA, DOTYCZĄCYCH PIELGRZYMEK NA JASNĄ GÓRĘ W 1977 ROKU
The Security Service documents from 1977 demonstrate unabated interest in Poles’ social activities regarding the pilgrimage movement. The problem applied to various occupational groups and youth. It was clear that the removal of religious education, liquidation of schools run by clergymen, dismissal of priests teaching in schools and authorities’ measures aimed at atheisation and secularization might turn out to be ineffective if young people engaged in the religious life in their free time. Therefore, any religious activity, participation in pilgrimages, subject matter of meetings and content of sermons and lectures for youth was overseen. The purpose of this constant surveillance was to exert pressure on the Church not to raise topics that would be inconvenient for the state authorities. The article presents the actions taken by the Security Service towards the pilgrimage movement to Jasna Góra monastery in 1977. The reports and the rest of the documentation prepared by the apparatus of repression of the People’s Republic of Poland (now they are stored in the Institute of National Remembrance) prove that the Department IV of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Warsaw and the Departments IV of the voivodeship headquarters of the Citizen’s Militia were intensively fighting with the Church in Poland. -
Durka J., „Taka wolność gorsza od niewoli...”. Rzeczywistość Polski Ludowej w świetle kilkunastu zapisów w Kronikach Klasztoru Jasnogórskiego z lat 1945–1958, [w:] Człowiek. Wiara. Kultura. W poszukiwaniu prawdy. Chrześcijańska Europa między wiarą a polityką, T. 2, red. A. Szyndler, Częstochowa 2010
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Działalność Wydziału Nauki i Oświaty (Nauki, Oświaty i Kultury) Komitetu Wojewódzkiego PZPR w Częstochowie w latach 1975-1990 w świetle planów i sprawozdań
The article depicts the activities of the Science and Education (Science, Education and Culture) Department of the Voivodeship Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in Częstochowa in the years 1975-1990. On the example of Częstochowa, it was presented how the Communist Party controlled science, education and culture circles in Poland. The elements of propaganda and indoctrination were illustrated on the basis of plans and reports. -
Durka J., Historia jednej budowy. Sprawa przejścia podziemnego w okolicach Jasnej Góry w latach 1979-1980, „Język. Religia. Tożsamość” 2012, T. VIII.
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Durka J., Patriotyzm na kartach Kronik Klasztoru Jasnogórskiego z okresu Polski Ludowej, „Język. Religia. Tożsamość” 2011, T. V.
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PIELGRZYMKI NAUCZYCIELI NA JASNĄ GÓRĘ W LATACH 60. I 70. XX WIEKU W DOKUMENTACH SŁUŻBY BEZPIECZEŃSTWA
The first teachers' pilgrimages to Jasna Góra were organized at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. Despite numerous obstacles associated with political divisions, attempts were made to intensify this movement after the restoration of Polish independence. The first all-Polish pilgrimage of teachers took place in 1937. However, the organization of such journeys was impossible during the Second World War. After the war teachers' pilgrimages to Jasna Góra were in turn regarded as serious threats for the secularization and indoctrination of the society in a People’s Poland controlled by the communist party. The number of pilgrims along with their age and sex were thus under constant surveillance. The sermons and papers presented at the conferences were also carefully analyzed. They almost always related to current social issues, relations between the state and the Church, and the internal policies of the Polish People's Republic government. In the conditions of strong censorship and information monopoly of the state authorities, the pilgrimages arranged as rallies or days of prayers were breaking the exclusivity of the communist party in shaping the image of socio-political reality in the group of teachers and educators. The Security Service kept records of their actions.