Coping with the unwanted past in planned socialist towns: Visaginas, Tychy, and Nowa Huta

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Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-57

  Balockaite, Rasa ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

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