Posts by Gene Sokolowski

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) This work is available free of charge online through Poland’s Janusz Kurtyka Foundation at this link. Foreword by Professor Emeritus Hiroaki Kuromiya Poland has long been a powerhouse of Russian/Soviet studies. Because of its historical connections (including the Russian occupation of large parts of Poland following the Partitions…

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) A PDF of this book can be read at this link. The following is the Foreword by Dr. Karol Nawrocki, President, The Institute of National Remembrance. “In May 1945, Western Europe was celebrating victory over Germany. At that time, Central and Eastern Europe was already completely controlled by…

(For professors, college students, teachers, and adults). In this scholarly work, Sławomir Dębski presents a brilliant reconstruction of the sequence of events from the point at which Germany clinched its rapprochement with the Soviet Union in August 1939 until the open clash of the two totalitarian Powers in June 1941. His book answers key questions…

This work is available free of charge online through Poland’s Janusz Kurtyka Foundation at this link. (For professors, college students, teachers, and adults). In this scholarly work, Professor Andrzej Nowak examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a…

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) This scholarly lexicon was compiled by Dariusz Iwaneczko and published in 2024 by The Institute of National Remembrance, Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation. The following are excerpts from the Introduction by Dariusz Iwaneczko. “The issue of the camps and prisons organized by the…

(For professors, college students, high-school teachers and students, parents, and interested adults) This outstanding work was authored by Dr. Adam Pleskaczynski and published in 2024 by The Institute of National Remembrance, Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation. The following is the Foreword by Dr. Karol Nawrocki, President, The Institute of National…

Published by the Pilecki Institute, with the Hoover Institution and Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance as partners, Outlines of Memory presents the accounts of Polish citizens who were victims of German and Soviet totalitarianism crimes during World War II. Their testimonies are supplemented with illustrations drawn by contemporary Polish artists who have utilized their distinct…

(For professors, college students, and interested adults) This book is available free of charge online at this link.  The following is reprinted from “Foreword by Andrzej Duda, the President of the Republic of Poland”, page iv. Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki was one of the greatest heroes of Poland, Europe and the entire free world in…