Irena Krzywicka, a writer and feminist activist, had noted, a few years before World War II, that “the eastern borders had always been, in a sense, colonies of Poland”—but who reads her today?

Irena Krzywicka, a writer and feminist activist, had noted, a few years before World War II, that “the eastern borders had always been, in a sense, colonies of Poland”—but who reads her today? A Nation-State in a Multinational Territory Just like his contemporary, the anthropologist Józef Obrębsk…