„Lewy profil” uczonej. Maria Skłodowska-Curie w służbie polonistyki socjalistycznej

Abstract

The author presents ways in which Maria Skłodowska-Curie was constructed as a personal model for socialism. The first part of the article attempts to reconstruct the portrait of the great scientist contained in the anthologies for primary school in the time of The People’s Republic of Poland, as well as the books by Helena Bobińska Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Ewa Curie Maria Curie. In the second part of the paper the author examines the means by which this image was used to serve ideological purposes. The author also examines selected school indoctrination practices which were intended to further students’ assimilation and imitation of a personal model of socialism derived from Skłodowska’s biography. She also discusses school indoctrination practices through which students were not only supposed to get to know Skłodowska-Curie, “the progressive scholar” – her life, work and virtues – but also to emulate her in their own lives.