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national task that had been assigned to them. Concerns around the question of whether Poles were
fully prepared to carry out a civilizing mission in the east were configured in other types of locality
too, albeit in different ways. It is to one of these spaces—Volhynia’s run-down and largely “Jewish”
towns—that we must now travel.
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