Review
Society
Uses and Abuses of Political Appeals to ‘Civilisation’
31 March 2021
31 March 2021
In On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World, Kathryn Ciancia investigates the uses of and abuses of the concept of ‘civilisation’ (ed. in British English) concerning the contested lands of Volhynia (in Polish, Wołyn) controlled by the Polish state between the world wars.
Kathryn Ciancia is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Madison, a historian of modern Eastern Europe whose research focuses on Poland in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Adam Aksnowicz holds an MA in History from Central European University and an MA in Sociology from the University of Wrocław. His research focuses on the history and memory of Poland’s former Eastern borderlands, state and military propaganda, and cultural politics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Originally from Chicago but currently based in Warsaw, his interests also include diaspora issues and US foreign relations.
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