REEEC Summer Research Laboratory Fisher Fellow Talk: Laura-Clarissa Loew, “Not ‘from Dishwasher to Millionaire’, but ‘from Peasant to Farmer’: the Politics and Narratives of Social Advancement in the Polish People’s Republic”

As a result of World War II, the newly founded socialist Polish state faced unprecedented changes in economic, social, and political life. Against the backdrop of the need for reconstruction, forced industrialization, and the establishment of a new socialist statehood, the narrative of “social...