Through the Back Door

Jerzy Kochanowski is Full Professor at the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw. He was Visiting Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz as well as Senior Fellow at the Imre-Kertész-Kolleg in Jena. His main areas of interest are the social history of Poland and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, Polish-German relations, and forced migrations.

• Black Market – Legal Markets – Semi-legal Markets – Illegal Markets – The Black Market in Communist Poland: Problems with Definition – The First World War – The Interwar Period – The Second World War – After the War – The Front Line of the War on Speculation: The Central Commission – Geography of the Black Market in the Polish People’s Republic – Periphery – Center – Big Cities – Municipal and District Poland – The North versus the South – East–West – Meat on the Black Market: Between Repression and Consent – Alcohol – A National Hobby: Illegal Alcohol Production – The Clandestine Distilleries: Moonshine and the Authorities – Gasoline – Dollar and Gold: A Panacea for Tough Times – The Greenback Game: Mechanisms and Players – Money Changers: A Portrait Study – The Tourist Trade in Communist Poland – Smugglers