Oblicze Dnia

Oblicze Dnia ('The Face of the Day') was a Polish weekly literary and political newspaper published from Warsaw.^[1][2][3] The periodical was launched in and published during 1936.^[4][5] It was directed towards the intelligentsia and was inspired by the Popular Front victories in Spain and France.^[1] For a short period of time, the publication attracted various prominent cultural figures. Collaborators of the newspaper included Adam Strug, Zofia Nałkowska, Maria Dąbrowska, Romain Rolland, Louis Aragon and Paul Langevin.^[1] The editors of the newspaper belonged to the Communist Party of Poland and the left-wing tendency of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS).^[2]

Wanda Wasilewska served as the editor-in-chief, and the periodical was named after one of her novels, published in 1934. The book dealt with a worker strikes in Kraków, and had obtained cult status amongst Polish left intellectuals.^[2][4][6] Wasilewska was a member of the Socialist Party but was considered a close ally of the Communist Party. At the time, negotiations on forming a Popular Front were taking place between the two parties. However, the launching of Oblicze Dnia led to the break-down of these talks, as the Socialist Party felt that the Communist Party had launched this newspaper under the supposed cover of a PPS sympathizer.^[2][4] The publication remained close to the Communist Party; in particular, it was associated with the communist front organ Czerwona Pomoc ("Red Aid").^[1] As with other publications linked to the Communist Party, Oblicze Dnia was confiscated by the state authorities from time to time.^[7]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan, and John Radzilowski. Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Charlottesville, VA: Leopolis Press, 2003. p. 78
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Wat, Aleksander, and Czesław Miłosz. Mon siècle: entretiens avec Czeslaw Milosz. [France]: Editions de Fallois/L'Age d'homme, 1989. pp. 244–245
3. ^ Naliwajek, Zbigniew. Romain Rolland en Pologne, (1910–1939). Varsovie: Les Éditions de l'Univerité de Varsovie, 1990. p. 33
4. ^ ^{a b c} Shore, Marci. Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generations's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. p. 109
5. ^ Prace Komisji Słowianoznawstwa. Warszawa: Wydawn. Akademii, 1968. Print. p. 137
6. ^ House, Roy Temple, and Ernst Erich Noth. Books Abroad. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma, 1941. p. 368
7. ^ Mała encyklopedia powszechna PWN. Poland: Land, History, Culture; An Outline. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawn, Naukowe, 1959. p. 147