Wędrowni handlarze. Jak jeździliśmy za granicę
Itinerant Tradesmen. How We Travelled Abroad

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of the culture of the distribution of goods in People’s Poland and a synthetic interpretation of itinerant trade from an historical perspective. The article, situated within the current of trans-frontier and trans-cultural studies, indicates both grassroots factors and the institutional context. Heretofore research dealing with post-war Europe firmly emphasised the significance of the division of the Continent into two isolated parts. Without completely negating this thesis, the author pointed to a systematic permeation of ideas and culture across the Iron Curtain and pondered the course of this expansion of the Western world in the conditions of a peripheral country and the political hegemony of communism.

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