On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World

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On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World
By: Ciancia, Kathryn

1st Edition | 2020 | Hardcover

9780190067458 / 0190067454

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As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that was home to Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews. Its aim was not simply to shore up state power in a place where Poles constituted an ethnic minority, but also to launch an ambitious civilizing mission that would transform a poor Russian imperial backwater into a region that was at once civilized, modern, and Polish.

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