Abstract:For more than thirty years after the end of the Polish People’s Republic, both public and academic debates on property reprivatization in Warsaw has been shaped by the false assumption that the Bierut Decree and the consequent communalization of urban land in post-WWII Warsaw were informed by the hostile Soviet ideology. Based on archival evidence, we argue that the Bierut Decree was to a significant extent shaped by the Swiss urban planner Hans Bernoulli and is deeply rooted in the European land-reform moveme… Show more
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