“Sierp” (The Sickle), “Młot” (The Hammer), “Trybuna Radziecka” (The Soviet Tribune): Titles of the Polish-Language Press Published in the Interwar USSR

Abstract

This study is devoted to the titles of newspapers and magazines published in Polish in the USSR in 1918–1939. These periodicals are a reflection of a unique period – they were issued during the first decades after the 1917 revolution, under the conditions of state monopoly on information. The titles of newspapers and magazines had to conform to the single party line and ideology enforced in the USSR. The vocabulary used in the titles under scrutiny is discussed in the context of the features of Russian political propaganda at the time, as well as those of the Polish-language propaganda created on its basis.

Keywords

• Polish-language newspapers in the USSR (1918–1939)
• Sovietisms in the Polish language
• press titles
• media onomastics