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October 5, 2012

Poland's Middle Class Searches for Ancestors

Tomasz Zarycki, Eurozine

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As the new Polish middle class seeks to establish its own identity and to break with the traditional ethos of the central European intelligentsia, it may find a model for integration with the broader international community through the experience of merchants once based in the Polish sector of the Russian empire.

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TAGGED: Germany, Russia, Europe, Poland

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