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
Associate 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 and 20th centuries.

Research topics and projects

1. Central and Eastern Europe: social and political history:
   • 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;
   • Members of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth parliament and state institutions – Dr Adam Danilczyk
   • Anarchism in Eastern Europe – movements and ideologies – Dr Aleksander Łaniewski
   • Józef Piłsudski and the Polish political opinion 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 – Dr hab. Aleksandra Leinwand;
   • Habsburg Empire (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 funded by the Ministry of Education and Science “Faces and metamorphoses of the Russian empires (333 years: 1689–2022). Carrying out scientific research within the Team for Comparative Research on Russian Imperialism. Professor Andrzej Nowak – head of the project. Dr Adam Danilczyk and Dr Łukasz Dryblak – secretaries. See: https://imperialismofrussia.org.
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:
   • Yauheni Dudkin, “Belarusian members of the Polish II Republic Parliament (1922–1939)”. Advisor: Associate professor Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur
   • Maxim Karaliou, “Genesis and activities of Polish and Latvian national village councils in the Soviet Belarus (1924–1939)”. Advisors: Professor Eriks Jekabsons (Latvian University), Associate professor Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur.
7. Other projects and grants in realisation:
   • NPRH/F/SP/496367/2021/10: “Inventory of the preserved but dispersed materials of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Territories (1919–1920)” [Przewodnik po zachowanych w rozproszeniu materiałach pozostałych po Zarządzie Cywilnym Ziem Wschodnich (1919–1920)] – head of the grant: Associate professor Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur
   • „Members of the Commonwealt’s Parliament from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1566–1794)”, NPRH, 2020–2025 – Dr Adam Danilczyk (participant of the grant).
8. New international academic conferences organised by the Section:
   • “Means and ways of empires: ideologies and political practices of the Russian/Soviet/Russian states between 1689 and 2022”, Warsaw, June 22–23, 2023. 22 scholars from 7 countries presented their texts (Poland, USA, Germany, Czech Rep., Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia).
   • “Spatial dimensions of Russian and Soviet Imperial Ideologies and Practices (1689–2023)”, Warsaw, December 11–12, 2023. 26 scholars from 10 countries presented their texts (Poland, USA, Germany, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Moldova, Lithuania, Turkey).
   • “Religions and Ideologies in Russian and Soviet Imperial Space (1689–2024)” – planned in Krakow for 26–27 September, 2024.