Katedry Podstaw Marksizmu-Leninizmu na przykładzie lubelskiego UMCS. Szkic do portretu

After 1944 Communists in Poland aspired to a full reconstruction of the political and social life. These processes did not omit the academic world posing new tasks ahead of it. The first change was about adapting the students' recruitment base. Now they had to come from peasants and workers. Secondly, the socialist consciousness and mentality was to be formed. University departments of the basics of Marxism-Leninism were to serve that aim. The following text describes actions taken at one of such departaments at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin.