“It Belongs to Us!” Narratives of Property Relations at a Time of Post-war Land Reform in Poland
The article deals with the property transformations that accompanied land reform in Poland after Second World War. Zborowska begins by reconstructing the authorities’ top-down narrative, focused on the property of the landed gentry (palace, manor). Its aim was to create an atmosphere that would help...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The article deals with the property transformations that accompanied land reform in Poland after Second World War. Zborowska begins by reconstructing the authorities’ top-down narrative, focused on the property of the landed gentry (palace, manor). Its aim was to create an atmosphere that would help mobilise rural communities to participate in expropriation and the redistribution of land. She then analyses the looting of (post) manor property on the basis of post-war memoirs and accounts by members of rural communities. The fact that only few such accounts exists, she argues, is not solely due to a sense of guilt. Alternative explanations for the practice of looting are presented. |
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