| Titre | Terre et « pureté ethnique » aux confins polono-ukrainiens | |
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| Auteur | Edouard Conte | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 138-140, 1995 Paysan au-delà du mur | |
| Page | 53-85 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Land and « Ethnic Purity » along the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands
The agrarian economy of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands (kresy), and in particular of former central Galicia, was long based on a deeply inegalitarian articulation of microfundia and latifundia. After 1945, through an ironic turn of history, they became a unique stronghold of individual peasant property in the areas which remained under Polish control. In contrast, in the areas subjected to Soviet rule, collectivization was quickly imposed ; after 1991, a landscape devoid of lords as well as of peasants suddenly emerged, where, for lack of agrarian reform, vast latifundia lay fallow in expectation of a yet hypothetical « transition ». Placed in a long-term historical perspective, this dual heritage of Soviet times helps us to understand the complex relations between shifts in patterns of land control and the singular versatility of collective identities. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1995_num_138_1_3527 |
