Czytelnik Publishing House

The Czytelnik Publishing House is a publishing company in Poland. It was established in 1944 behind the Soviet front line as the Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik". As of now, it is the oldest post–World War II publisher in Poland. The word czytelnik means "reader" in Polish.
Intended to be located in Warsaw after the Nazi German withdrawal, it was temporarily headquartered in Lublin and Łódź. In July 1945 the headquarters were moved to Warsaw. Initially, the Czytelnik published newspapers, periodicals, as well as books. Since 1951 publishing of newspapers and periodicals was transferred to the Workers' Publishing Cooperative "Prasa", which was reorganized and greatly expanded in 1973 as the Prasa-Książka-Ruch monopoly financing the PZPR until the end of Soviet domination.
In 1945–48 the publishing house was under heavy influence of a committed Stalinist Jerzy Borejsza. It was a publishing monopoly in Communist Poland, described by Czesław Miłosz as Borejsza's "personal state-within-a-state for books and press". Borejsza was removed from his role during the ousting of Władysław Gomułka in 1948, part of the Soviet-led campaign against the so-called "right-wing and nationalist deviation" in Polish Workers' Party.

Presidents

Archiwum Kultury
Biblioteka Dwudziestolecia
Biblioteka Expressu Wieczornego
Biblioteka Gazety Poznanskiej
Biblioteka Literatury Faktu XXX-lecia
Biblioteka Naukowa Mlodego Czytelnika
Biblioteka Popularnonaukowa "Mathesis Polskiej"
Biblioteka Powszechna
Biblioteka Romansow i Powiesci
Biblioteka Satyry
Biblioteka Szpilek
Biblioteka Trybuny Wolnosci
Biblioteka Uniwersytetow Robotniczych
Dom i Swiat
Klasycy Literatury XX Wieku
Kolekcja Polskiej Literatury Wspolczesnej
Ksiazka Nowego Czytelnika
Klub Dobrej Ksiazki
Mala Biblioteczka Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechnej
Maly Album Malarstwa Polskiego
Muzyczna Biblioteka Pedagogiczna
Nike
Nowy Sympozjon
Oni Zmienili Swiat
Pamietniki kobiet
Panorama
Pejzaże Kultury
Piosenki Czytelnika
Poeci Polscy
Polska Krytyka Literacka
Prace Polskiego Instytutu Socjologicznego Studium Problemow Chlopskich i Robotniczych
Prace Slasko-Dabrowskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciol Nauk
Seria z Faunem
Seria z Jamnikiem
Studia z Dziejow Mysli i Ruchu Demokratycznego
Symposion
U Podstaw Wiedzy
Wiedza Powszechna
Wielka wojna bialych ludzi – Polish translations of World War I novels by Arnold Zweig
Wielkie Problemy Dziejow Czlowieka
Wzorowy Zawodowiec
Z Kosmonauta
Z Prac Instytutu Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Z Prac Instytutu Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk