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The article points out the problems of the influence of the political transformation in Poland on creating the contemporary press market. It explains the historical importance of the Workers' Publishing Cooperative "Press – Book – Ruch" (WPC) in the period of the People's Republic of Poland, which was the biggest press concern across Central and Eastern Europe and was an extremely important element of the political system which had been under the full influence of the Polish United Workers' Party. It owned most of the press titles on Polish market, so when in 1990 the liquidation of the Collective was started, there were many significant problems of political, financial and social nature. Moreover, in the process of purchasing Polish newspapers and magazines was joined not only by domestic forces but also foreign capital and international investors, which made this privatisation even more difficult and controversial. Main problems were mentioned as well as examples of incompetence of Liquidation Committee or loopholes which caused serious difficulties.

The technological evolution of the media and the process of socio‑cultural changes and their impact on the press in Poland
System transformation, which has been performed after year 1989, has started process of violent changes in each domain of life in Poland. It has allowed on economy freedom that has contributed to intensive technological evolution. This process had key meaning for development, but especially for modification of Polish press market. On the one hand we observe pluralism among press titles which has brought immediate growth on this market, but press sector had to face the challenge of competitive media that use technological development to supply their functioning. It's said not only about the radio and television, but especially about utilization of internet on different surfaces of spheres of media. The present publication is the study of chosen aspects of changes, which have reached and still has place, in the consequence of appearance and employment of newest technical solutions. The author indicate what chances and threats can they give for farthest functioning of press in Poland.

The text is about the process of liquidation of Workers' Publishing Collective "Prasa-Książka-Ruch", which had been a particularly important element of political system in The Polish People's Republic. The author says that this subject is not widely presented in the literature. Furthermore, she claims that for proper understanding of dismantling, she had met with the former last chairman of the Collective. Those meetings had given her a chance to write about aspects which hasn't often been presented in the literature. The text presents all the aspects and ways of liquidation but also shows main disadvantages of this process. Main signifi cation has the act from 22nd March 1990 which started the liquidation. The author presents that the most important defect of this document was preparing the act in rush and lack of consciousness of the diffi culty of this process. Accordingly, it caused many negative opinions about all the process. Key words: Workers' publishing collective, liquidation, transformation, The Round Table, monopoly, Sławomir Tabkowski, Polish United Workers' Party