ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Upward Social Mobility under Socialism in Eastern Europe 1945-1989
CLASS-UP proposes a qualitative comparative study of upward mobility (UM) under socialism, comparing Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. UM was a crucial social battleground in postwar Europe. Yet, we don’t understand how UM worked in socialist states, which differed from the West because of the historical post-feudal and post-imperial trajectory, the upheaval of WWII, and the geopolitical changes after 1945. The latter resulted in a dramatic redistribution of welfare and socialist visions of UM which promised the collective advancement of the working classes and a new egalitarian society. First, (RQ1) how was UM defined, and what were its indicators? How was it presented in official…
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