Andrzej Nowak

Other:

1. lectured on the history of Poland and Russia at numerous universities in the United States (Columbia, Harvard, Rice, University of Virginia, Duke, Chapel Hill), Great Britain (Cambridge, University College of London), Canada (Toronto, Simon Fraser, McGill, University of Alberta), as well as in, among others, Brno, Tokyo and Dublin;
2. member of the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity Academic Council, and the Institute of National Remembrance Council, as well as the Council for Numismatics in the National Bank of Poland. Chairman of the Board of the Juliusz Mieroszewski Center for Eastern European Dialogue;
3. former editor in chief of  Kwartalnik Historyczny (2020–2023), and Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej (2013–2019), currently member of the editorial boards of these two journals as well as that of Dzieje Najnowsze.
4. involved in the samizdat after 1980, during the Martial Law in Poland, co-organised the Free Jagiellonian University (WUJ) offering lectures to groups of workers; collaborator of the Christian Workers’ University organised by the Revd Kazimierz Jancarz in Nowa Huta;
5. collaborator (after 1983), secretary to the editors (1988–1994) and subsequently the editor-in-chief of the Arkabi-monthly (samizdat until 1989);
6. journalist in the international section of Czas Krakowski, 1990–1992 (completed a course on international journalism at the Reuters news agency in London in 1990);
7. editor-in-chief of the Arcana bi-monthly (1994–2012).

Selected awards:

1. Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest and oldest order, awarded in 2019
2. the Kazimierz Moczarski Prize (for the book Pierwsza zdrada Zachodu. Zapomniany appeasement 1920 r.), 2016.
3. the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize – 2012.
4. MASTER/MISTRZ from the Foundation for Polish Science, 2011.
5. the Wacław Jędrzejewicz History Medal from the Józef Piłsudski Institute in New York: 2011.
6. four KLIO awards for the best historical book of the year: Jak robić rosyjskie imperium(1995, 2nd class), Kronika Polski (1998, 2nd class), Polska i trzy Rosje. Polityka wschodnia Piłsudskiego do kwietnia 1920 r. (2001, 1st class), Pierwsza zdrada Zachodu. Zapomniany appeasement 1920 r. (2016, 2nd class).
7. a prize from the POLCUL Foundation for involvement in the samizdat movement, 1989.

Participation in research projects:

1. “Memories of empires in Eastern Europe. Theoretical contexts and comparisons”, MASTER/MISTRZ program of the Foundation for Polish Science, 2012–2014; head of the project.
2. “The First World War on the Polish lands. Expectations – experience – consequences”, project funded by National Fund for Humanities (NPRH), 2014–2018; principal investigator.
3. “Faces and metamorphoses of the Russian empires (333 years: 1689–2022). Carrying out scientific research within the Team for Comparative Research on Russian Imperialism” – project funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. Head of the project. See: https://imperialismofrussia.org

Thirty books totalling over 300,000 copies, nearly 200 articles and scholarly reviews, several hundred articles for the press.

Recent books:

1. History and Geopolitics: A Contest for Eastern Europe, Warszawa, 2008, pp. 363.
2. Imperium a ti druzi. Rusko, Polsko a moderni dĕjiny východni Evropy, Brno, 2010, pp. 264.
3. [editor] Imperial Victims/Empires as Victims: 44 Views. Ofiary imperiów/imperia jako ofiary: 44 spojrzenia, Warszawa, 2010, pp. 652.
4. Imperiological Studies. A Polish Perspective, Kraków, 2011, pp. 240.
5. Dzieje Polski, vol. 1–6, Kraków 2014–2024 (the English translation published in 2023: The History of Poland, Vol. I–V, as well as the German translation: Die Geschichte Polens, Band I–V, Kraków 2023), pp. 384 + 416 + 474 + 464+ 504 + 496 (vol. VI, available only in Polish).
6. [editor] Pamięć imperiów w Europie Wschodniej. Teoretyczne konteksty i porównania, Kraków, 2015, pp. 339.
7. [editor] Historie Polski w XIX wieku, vol. 1, Warszawa, 2013, pp. 488; vols. 2–3, Warszawa, 2013, pp. 505, 347; vol. 4, Warszawa, 2015, pp. 606.
8. Pierwsza zdrada Zachodu. 1920: zapomniany appeasement, Kraków, 2015, pp. 606.
9. “Kto powiedział, że Moskale są to bracia nas, Lechitów…”. Szkice z historii wyobraźni politycznej Polaków, Kraków, 2016, pp. 686.
10. Imperia, narody i społeczeństwa Europy Wschodniej i Środkowe na progu pierwszej wojny światowej, Warszawa, 2016, pp. 714.
11. Metamorfozy rosyjskiego imperium (1721–1921). Geopolityka, ody i narody, Kraków, 2018, pp. 558.
12. [editor] Perspektywy przegranych i zwycięzców Wielkiej Wojny: zbiorowe tożsamości i indywidualne doświadczenia w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej (1914–1921), Warszawa, 2018, pp. 480.
13. O historii nie dla idiotów. Rozmowy i przypadki, Kraków, 2019, pp. 624.
14. Klęska imperium zła. Rok 1920, Kraków 2020, pp. 368.
15. Między nieładem a niewolą. Krótka historia myśli politycznej, Kraków, 2020, pp. 384.
16. Jak postavala „imperija zla”? Dosvid tsentralno-skhidnoj Evropy, Kyiv (Ukrainian edition), 2021, pp. 352.
17. Polska i Rosja. Sąsiedztwo wolności i despotyzmu X-XXI w., Kraków 2022, pp. 440 (the English translation published in 2023: Poland and Russia. The Neighborhood of Freedom and Despotism in the X–XXI Centuries, as well as the German translation: Polen und Russland. Eine Nachbarschaft der Freiheit und des Despotismus 10.–21. Jhd., pp. 448, and the Romanian edition: Polonia Și Rusia. Ȋntre libertate și despotism secolele al. X-lea al XXI-lea, Bucharest, 2024).
18. Az Orosz birodalom áldozatai – a birodalom mint áldozat (Victims of the Russian Empire – the Empire as a victim) Budapest, 2022, pp. 334.
19. The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920. Lloyd-George, Lenin and Poland, Routledge, London–New York, 2023, pp. 408 (German edition: Das vergessene Appeasement von 1920: Lloyd George, Lenin und Polen, , De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024, pp. 437).
20. Metamorfoze Ruskog Carstva 1721.–1921. Geopolitika, Ode i Narodi, Zagreb, 2023, pp. 446.
21. Powrót “imperium zła”. Ideologie współczesnej Rosji, ich twórcy i krytycy, Kraków, 2023, pp. 520.

More important recent articles:

1. “Reborn Poland or Resurrected Empire? Questions on the Course and Results of Polish Eastern Policy (1918–1921)”, Lithuanian Historical Studies, 13 (2008), pp. 127–150.
2. “Intelligentsias in the Structure of the Empire. The Assimilative Function of the Central Counter-elite”, Acta Poloniae Historica, 100 (2009), no. 2, pp. 32–55.
3. “Unde malum? – H. Carr’s and Richard Pipes’ Visions of the Russian Revolution”, in: East and West. History and Contemporary State of Eastern Studies, eds. J. Malicki, L. Zasztowt, Bibliotheca Europea Orientalis, vol. 34, Warsaw, 2009, pp. 77–102.
4. “Russia, Empire, and Evil: Dilemmas and Temptations in Contemporary Russian Political Imagination”, in: Politics, History and Collective Memory in East Central Europe, eds. R. Ritter et al., Hamburg, 2012, pp. 163–196.
5. “Murder In the Cemetery: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars”, in: Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, eds. U. Blacker, A. Etkind, J. Fedor, New York, 2013, pp. 149–171.
6. “A ‘Polish Connection’ in American Sovietology, Or the Old Homeland Enmities in the New Host Country Humanities”, in: East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939–1989, eds. M. Zadencka, A. Plakans, A. Lawaty, Amsterdam–New York, 2015, pp. 375–395.
7. “Political Correctness and Memories Constructed for ‘Eastern Europe’”, in: Memory and Change in Europe – Eastern Perspectives, eds. M. Pakier, J. Wawrzyniak, New York–Oxford, 2015, pp. 38–56.
8. “Imperija rusu politiniame diskurse po 1991 metu”, in: Atminties kulturu dialogai Ukrainos, Lietuvos, Baltarusijos (ULB) erdveje, eds. Alvydas Nikzentaitis, Michał Kopczyński, Vilnius, 2015, pp. 276–289.
9. “The Polish-Lithuanian Empire”, in: Encyclopedia of Empires, ed. J. MacKenzie, London–New York, 2016.
10. “1956: Memories of Anti-Imperial Rebellions”, in: European Remembrance. Lectures, Discussions, Commentaries, 2012–2016, ed. R. Rogulski, Warszawa, 2016, pp. 255–262.
11. “Hagyan buknak és születnek újjá birodalmak?”, Kalligram. Müvészet és Gondolat, vol. XXV (2016), pp. 81–92.
12. “Atsminti ar užmiršti 1863–1864 m. sukilima: Keli tyrimo klausimai, interpretacijos, siulymai ir kontekstai”, in: 1863–1864 m. Sukilimas: istorija ir atmintis, eds. Zita Medišauskiene, Darius Staliunas, Vilnius, 2016 [2017], LII [Lietuvos istorijos institutats], pp. 187–216.
13. “Eastern Europe and the British Imperial Imagination, 1914–1919”, Studies into the History of Russia and Central-Eastern Europe, 52 (2017), no. 2.
14. “Poland and Central-Eastern Europe: A Star Is Born (14th–15th centuries)”, in: Dziedzictwo/Heritage, ed. A. Szczerski, Kraków, 2017, pp. 30–45.
15. “Eastern European Geopolitical Shifts and the British Imperial Imagination, 1914–1919: From Balfour to Mackinder and Back Again”, in: Breaking Empires, Making Nations? The First World War and the Reforging of Europe, eds. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Quincy Cloet, Alex Dowdall, Warsaw, 2017, pp. 171–202.
16. “Geopolitics, War and Methamorphoses of Empire (1895–1921): Petr Savitskii and the Birth of Eurasianism”, in: The First World War on Polish Lands. Expectations – Experiences – Consequences, ed. Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, Warsaw, 2018, pp. 55–116.
17. “Is There a Specific Eastern European Perspective on Violence in the 20th Century?”, Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History, eds. Florin Abraham, Réka Földváryné Kiss, no. 6, 2018, pp. 191–204.
18. “Anti-communism in Polish 19th century thought”, in: Polish anti-communism in the 20th Century, eds. Piotr Kardela, Karol Sacewicz, Białystok–Olsztyn–Warszawa, 2021, pp. 17–38.
19. “Reinhart Koselleck – intelektualna biografia historyka i jej odbicie w korespondencji z Carlem Schmittem”, Dzieje Najnowsze, LIV, no. 4 (2022) [printed in 2023], pp. 5–23.
20. “Reinhart Koselleck’s Personal Sluices of Memory and Sediments of Experience”, Kwartalnik Historyczny, vol. CXXX (2023), Eng.-Language Edition, no. 7, pp. 139–161.