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Carolina Seminar: ‘“Actually-Existing” Integration: Dąbrowa Górnicza and the Construction of Huta Katowice, 1971-1979’

January 24, 2019 at 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

More than any other Soviet-Polish investment project of the 1970s, the giant steel mill Huta Katowice was an attempt to transform international socialist economic development and bind the ‘fraternal nations’ together. At the forested outskirts of Dąbrowa Górnicza, a city in the same historic industrial region at the edge of Silesia where reform-oriented Polish leader Edward Gierek had been born, Huta Katowice was to revolutionize Poland’s export potential both inside the socialist camp and on the global market. Combining a tremendous gamble on cheap Western credit with reliance on underpriced Soviet inputs in intra-bloc trade, the project also pulled a new, unprecedentedly urbanized generation of young Poles to the site. Part of a dissertation about three interconnected nodes of Eastern Bloc industrial development, the chapter for this presentation focuses on the localized experience, potential, and problems of Dąbrowa Górnicza’s rapid transformation.

Details

Date:
January 24, 2019
Time:
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Venue

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003
301 Pittsboro St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516 United States
Phone
+1.919.962.2435

Organizer

Center for Slavic, Eurasian & East European Studies
Phone
+1.919.962.0901
Email
cseees@unc.edu
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