Yakutsk and surroundings – notes from a winter expedition to the Sakha Republic
Anna Zapalec: Yakutia is a vast region, still naturally wild and geographically surprising, as most of its area is not developed by man.
Stalin’s execution lists in the system of Soviet state terror
Jan Raczynski: Although the Great Terror is usually associated with the activities of the ‘NKVD troika’, its prelude was the so-called ‘death lists’.
Pahiatua – where God rest
Urszula Dąbrowska: The resourced attention of people from Poland makes Polish people in New Zealand want to learn about their identity, learn about their ancestors. This is especially important in a multicultural country where history has little meaning.
The Great Famine in Kazakhstan (Asharshylyk): A Forgotten History
Dmitriy Panto: Although the subject of the Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) is widely known and researched, the history of this tragedy in Kazakhstan has largely gone without mention in Polish historiography.
Tadeusz Hołówko. From Exile in Turkestan to Independent Poland
Bartłomiej Krzysztan: It was a stormy evening, Saturday, August 29, 1931. For almost three weeks, deputy Tadeusz Hołówko had been a patient in Truskawiec, health resort located in Bieszczady mountains known for its mineral springs, which belonged back then to the Lviv province.
Imam Shamil’s “Pole”
Jerzy Rohoziński:
The history of the last years of Imam Shamil, the great chief of the Caucasian highlanders resisting Russian imperialism, has its own “Polish” thread. And it is not a likeable one. It is also not entirely clear to which extend it is “Polish”.
They failed to join Anders
Dr Piotr Popławski discusses the circumstances behind the formation of Berling’s Army and the Sybirak elements of this story with Prof. dr hab. Karol Olejnik the eminent historian and researcher of the Polish army.
History in liquidation – removal of Polish memorials in Russia
Ewa Ziółkowska: Last year in Russia, one by one, Polish memorial signs disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Crosses, plaques and entire multi-ton stone monuments were removed. This is the Russian response to Poland’s involvement in helping Ukraine attacked by Russia in February 2022.
How to ‘depolish’ the Borderlands? The Russian and Soviet empires with regard to the eastern lands of the Republic of Poland in the 19th–20th centuries
Dr Henryk Głębocki interviewed by Tomasz Danilecki Tomasz Danilecki: We will attempt to reflect on the internal differences in the Russian elites’ approach to the integration of the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the empire after the destruction the...