Tag: socialist integration

Agents of Socialist Integration: Customs Controls and Human Flows on the Poland-GDR Border

30.08.2026

Presentation at the “Un/Making (National, Imperial, EU-European) Borders: Spaces & Practices in and beyond Europe in the long 20th Century” conference (of the “Production of Migration” Collaborative Research Centre, SFB 1604) at the Europa-Universität Flensburg on 31 August 2026. Excerpt: “Economic integration” itself meant something different for Soviet-style socialist states than it did in liberal…
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Controlling“Socialist Integration:” Transnational Cooperation between East German and Polish Customs Agents

22.11.2025

Presented at the 2025 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies conference in Washington, D.C. as part of the panel “Revisiting ‘Socialist Integration’: Transnational Cooperation and Its Challenges under State Socialism” Introduction: On January 8th, 1989, East German customs officials at a jointly operated checkpoint on the Polish side of the border in Zgorzelec…
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