Section for the History of Eastern Europe and the Empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Head: Professor Andrzej Nowak
Dr hab. Daniel Boćkowski – Chief Officer for Journal Digitisation
Dr Adam Danilczyk
Professor Tadeusz Epsztein
Professor Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur
Dr hab. Aleksandra Leinwand – Section Secretary
Dr Aleksander Łaniewski
Professor Hanna Marczewska-Zagdańska
Cooperators:
Pavel Ablamski, MA
Dr Aleksandra Bańkowska
Dr Paweł Chojnacki
Dr Łukasz Dryblak
Dr Bartłomiej Gajos
Dr Katarzyna Losson
Michał Raczkowski, MA
Dr Marcin Schirmer
Dr Adrianna Sznapik
Doctoral students:
Yauheni Dudkin, MA (SD Anthropos)
Maxim Karaliou, MA (SD Anthropos)
PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS OF THE SECTION
1. The Russian Empire and the peoples of Eastern Europe;
2. The legacy of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe: social, geopolitical and memorial aspects;
3. The history of Poles in the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
RESEARCH TOPICS AND PROJECTS
1. Central and Eastern Europe: social and political history:
– The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in the USSR and its subordinate local offices in 1941–1943 – Dr hab. Daniel Boćkowski;
– Workers at land estates on Polish lands in the 19th and 20th centuries – Professor Tadeusz Epsztein;
– Polish landowners in the 20th century. A biographical dictionary – Professor Tadeusz Epsztein;
– Józef Piłsudski and the formation of Belarusian statehood – Professor Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur.
2. Research on political ideology with particular emphasis on the history of empires:
– Polish propaganda during the Polish–Soviet war 1919–1920 – Professor Aleksandra Leinwand;
– Austria (Austro-Hungary) in the policy of the United States of America in the 19th and 20th centuries – Professor Hanna Marczewska-Zagdańska;
– History of the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries (relations between the centre and the peripheries, 1721–1917) – Professor Andrzej Nowak.
3. The project is part of a grant awarded within the National Programme for the Development of Humanities: “First World War on Polish Territories. Expectations – experience – consequences” (project leader: Professor Włodzimierz Mędrzecki); participants in the module supervised by Professor Andrzej Nowak: Professor Aleksandra Leinwand, Dr Katarzyna Losson, Professor Hanna Marczewska-Zagdańska, Dr Adrianna Sznapik; critical edition of the diary of Aleksandr Szklennik 1915–1918 – Professor Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur [the project completed].
4. Publishing the journal “Studies in the History of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe”.
5. Internationalisation of the journal “Studies in the History of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe” through translation into English and electronic publication (Index Plus).
6. The research topics of the doctoral students of the section:
– Pavel Ablamski – “The ethnic policy of the Second Republic of Poland in 1921–1939” (supervision: Professor Joanna Gierowska-Kalłaur);
– Mikołaj Morzycki-Markowski – “Memories of an empire: the role of history in the politics of the Russian Federation 1992–2012” (supervision: Professor Andrzej Nowak).
