UNFINISHED UTOPIA: NOWA HUTA, STALINISM, AND POLISH SOCIETY, 1949-1956 PLACES POLAND’S “FIRST SOCIALIST CITY,” THE INDUSTRIAL NEW TOWN OF NOWA HUTA, AT THE CENTER OF NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF STATE SOCIALISM AS EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE. EXPLORING STALINIST EFFORTS TO RESHAPE EVERYDAY LIFE, IT FOCUSSES ON THE URBAN MIGRANTS WHO BUILT AND SETTLED IN NOWA HUTA AND ON THE CREATION AND NEGOTIATION OF NEW FORMS OF LABOR, LEISURE, AND DOMESTICITY IN THE PLANNED CITY. I ARGUE THAT MIGRANTS ASSIMILATED DIMENSIONS OF STALINIST IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICE TO FORM A SOLIDARISTIC URBAN, WORKING-CLASS IDENTITY, ONE THAT MADE NOWA HUTA, IRONICALLY, ULTIMATELY AMONG THE MOST VIGOROUS CENTERS OF LABOR AND POPULAR OPPOSITION TO THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN POLAND. AT THE SAME TIME, THE BOOK POSITIONS NOWA HUTA AGAINST A PAN-EUROPEAN CANVAS: BOTH THE “SOCIALIST CITIES” OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE POSTWAR NEW TOWNS OF BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND SCANDINAVIA MAY BE VIEWED AS THE PRESSURE POINTS OF EUROPEAN SOCIETIES MOVING FROM RATIONED SCARCITY TO WIDENING HORIZONS OF FREEDOM, CHOICE, AND MOBILITY AFTER WORLD WAR II.