Książka i Wiedza

Książka i Wiedza ("Books and Knowledge") is a Polish publishing house founded in 1948, soon after World War II.[1]

In communist Poland it was the leading state publisher of books about politics and history, with Marxist-Leninist leanings.[1] It published, for the first time in Stalinist Poland, the works of Joseph Stalin.[2]

Książka i Wiedza now publishes non-fiction popular science books for the general reader, encyclopedias, dictionaries, history, philosophy, economy and self-help books on physical and psychological wellness. Its popular authors include Max Weber, Karl Raimund Popper, Bertrand Russell, Ludwik Bazylow, Andrzej Zahorski, Henryk Samsonowicz, Nina Andrycz, and Jacek Pałkiewicz.[3]

Its current editor-in-chief and president is Włodzimierz Gałąska.[3]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "Książka i Wiedza (section: Poland)". TheFreeDictionary by Farlex. 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Search catalogue (2013). "Warszawa : Książka i Wiedza". Publishing history. Biblioteka Krakowskiej Akademii im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego. Retrieved 7 October 2013. Also, Książka i Wiedza: J. Stalin, Zagadnienia leninizmu, Warszawa 1950.
  3. 1 2 About us. "Spółdzielnia Wydawniczo-Handlowa "Książka i Wiedza"" (in Polish). Książka i Wiedza. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
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