Making Prussia Polish. Changing Land and People in Poland’s New Territories, 1945–1960

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Katharina Matro, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Date: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 16:00 to 18:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
3702 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free

Katharina Matro’s dissertation and talk focuses on the transformation of the vast estates of Prussia’s nobility into Polish state farms and smaller family farmsteads post-1945 and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Her research forms the argument that the continual assault on both land and property rights during the time determined the fragile postwar economy and society in the region.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Department of History
World Regions: 
Russia/Eastern Europe