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5 - State Building in the Polish Wild West

from Part III - State Building in the Wake of Displacement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Volha Charnysh
Volha Charnysh
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Summary

The chapter examines the process of state building in the territory transferred from Germany to Poland in 1945, showing that mass uprooting shored up the demand for state-provided resources and weakened resistance to governance. It exploits the placement of the interwar border between Poland and Germany to estimate the effects of postwar population transfers on the size of the state. It then examines the political legacies of population transfers in post-1989 Poland.

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state capacitystate-buildingstate administrationnationalizationcollectivizationcooperativespolicingelitesWWIIimperial partitionsPrussian partitionVersailles TreatyPolish bordersNazi occupationSoviet occupationCommunist Partycommunismstate socialismresettlementstate weaknessresistanceCatholic churchcommunist successor partyvotingfrontiergeographic regression discontinuity designland ownershipredistribution of land
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Uprooted
How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe
 , pp. 111 - 141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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