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mamthew42   
16 Apr 2009
History / Partitions and Modern Polish Culture [26]

I have to write a paper for my Eastern Europe class. I chose Poland as the country because it interests me, and when finding a narrower topic, finally decided on how the Partitions (all six times) have affected modern Polish culture. This includes both how the cultures of the countries occupying Poland may have influenced it culture-wise and how the polish people may have reacted to being occupied (such as becoming more nationalistic because of the unwelcome presence).

Unfortunately, days of searching both the internet and libraries has turned up little to no leads and the rough draft for the paper is due very soon. Any help would be much appreciated. Links to articles would be great, but even just telling me personal observations or giving me suggestions on how to narrow down the topic further would be fine.
mamthew42   
16 Apr 2009
History / Partitions and Modern Polish Culture [26]

Yeah, I was told that I had to narrow it down, too. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which aspect of culture would yield the best results, mostly because I haven't found much of anything on the partitions that wasn't just militarily historical. If I had something to go on, it'd help.

I guess the first big split is would it be easier to find things related to art, music, language, etc. or things related to behaviors, attitudes, etc?

The latter would probably be narrow enough for a paper to work, while the former would have to be broken down again into one specific part.

I've thought this all through, I just haven't had enough of a starting point to get to...a starting point...