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The author recalls a now-classic monograph of a Silesian housing estate, written by Professor Józef Chalasinski, an outstanding Polish sociologist, entitled 'Polish-German Antagonism in the 'Kopalnia' Factory Housing Estate in Upper Silesia'. He discusses the basic assumptions of this monograph and the main theses of its three pre-war reviews (by Pawel Rybicki, Stanislaw Rychlinski, and Tadeusz Szczurkiewicz). He then presents the post-war reception of Professor Chalasinski's research, and closes by reflecting on the topicality of this monograph.