Nowe Widnokręgi was a Polish language magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 initially published monthly, later once every two weeks and served as the official organ of the communist

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 Union of Soviet Writers. It was published from February till June 1941 in Soviet-occupied Lwów. Despite its orientation, it differed from the earlier publication Czerwony Sztandar, reflecting a more softened cultural policy of the Soviets vis-a-vis Polish culture.

Later, it was published in the Soviet hinterland. From 1943 it functioned as the organ of the Union of Polish Patriots

Union of Polish Patriots

Union of Polish Patriots was a political body created by Polish communists and Joseph Stalin in Soviet Union in 1943...

, and its editor-in-chief was Wanda Wasilewska

Wanda Wasilewska

Wanda Wasilewska was a Polish and Soviet novelist and communist political activist who played an important role in the creation of a Polish division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II and the formation of the Polish People's Republic....

. Among the contributors of Nowe Widnokręgi were Mieczysław Jastrun, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Leon Pasternak

Leon Pasternak

Leon Pasternak was a Polish poet and satirist...

, Tadeusz Peiper

Tadeusz Peiper

Tadeusz Peiper was a Polish poet, art critic, theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry. Born to a Jewish family, Peiper converted to Catholicism as a young man and spent several years in Spain...

, Julian Przyboś

Julian Przybos

Julian Przyboś was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, one of the most important poets of Kraków Avantgarde....

, Jerzy Putrament

Jerzy Putrament

Jerzy Putrament was a Polish writer, poet, editor, publicist and politician.-Biography:Jerzy Putrament was born into a family with patriotic traditions...

, Adam Ważyk

Adam Wazyk

Adam Ważyk born Ajzyk Wagman was a Polish poet, essayist and writer born to a Jewish family in Warsaw. In his early career, he was associated with the Kraków avant-garde led by Tadeusz Peiper who published Zwrotnica monthly. Ważyk wrote several collections of poetry in the interwar years...

, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski

Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic above all, and translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish...

, Janina Broniewska

Janina Broniewska

Janina Broniewska née Kunig was a Polish writer, author of many stories for kids and young adults, publicist and teacher. Between 1934 and 1937 she was the editor of the magazine Płomyk. Between 1944-1946 she edited "Polska Zbrojna"...

, Zofia Dzierżyńska, Adolf Bromberg, Julia Brystygier, Aleksander Dan, Emil Dziedzic, Halina Górska

Halina Górska

Halina Górska - was a Polish writer and a communist activist.Beginning in 1924 Górska became associated with the Lwów literary scene. Her first publication, in 1925, was "Mam mieszkanie" , in the Kurier Lwowski...

, Stefan Jędrychowski, Witold Kolski, Karol Kuryluk

Karol Kuryluk

Karol Kuryluk was a Polish journalist, editor, activist, politician and diplomat. In 2002 he was honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews in the Holocaust.- Biography :...

, Stanisław Wasylewski, Roman Werfel

Roman Werfel

Roman Werfel, born 1906, Lwów, still alive , was a Polish communist apparatchik, active during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland...

, and Jerzy Pomianowski.

The publication of the journal ceased in 1946.