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Polish Studies
Interviews with scholars of Poland about their new books
July 12, 2026
Democratic Backsliding and Resistance
This week on Democracy Dialogues, Frances Cayton speaks with four experts on Polish politics about the success of Poland’s opposition coalition in 202…
July 7, 2026
BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland
In BDSM Practices in Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), cultural anthropologist and …
July 6, 2026
Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption
Today’s guest, Krzysztof Rowiński, is the author of Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film (Routledge, 2026). Thi…
June 20, 2026
The Public House in Central Europe
In his new book The Public House in Central Europe: Inns, Tavern, and Alehouses in Cracow during the Jagiellonian Dynasty (Lexington Books, 2024), Pet…
June 14, 2026
A Polish Girl in Siberia
A memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordin…
February 8, 2026
Jozef Pilsudski
In the 1920s, Józef Piłsudski was a household name not just in Poland, but across Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean as well. Yet this complex and c…
December 30, 2025
Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show…
November 24, 2025
The Stories Old Towns Tell
Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt…
November 3, 2025
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of the most storied events of the Holocaust, yet previous accounts of have almost entirely focused on its male parti…
September 8, 2025
Good Change
In Poland between 2015 and 2023, Jarosław Kaczyński and his Law and Justice Party (PiS) attempted a novel experiment. Could a governing party sustain …
August 16, 2025
Beyond Violence
Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48 (Cambridge UP, 2014) tells a story of Polish and Slovak Holocaust survivors returnin…
August 12, 2025
Zbig
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Union’s demise, which ended the Cold War. A child of Warsaw—the heart of central Europe’s bloodl…
July 21, 2025
The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386-1596
The volume offers a re-examination of the rise of the Jagiellon dynasty in medieval and early modern Central Europe. Originating in Lithuania and exte…
May 21, 2025
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust
Today I interviewed Jan Borowicz about Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders (Routledge, 2024). "The…
May 11, 2025
Spies In My Blood
Spies In My Blood: A Polish Family’s Secret Fight Against Nazis & Communists (Polestar-Media, 2025) is the true story of two brothers raised in New Yo…
May 4, 2025
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
For nearly five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, forming the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. No …
May 4, 2025
Catching the China-Europe Express
In this episode, we focus on the often-overlooked geographies of Eurasian connectivity with Dr. Wojciech Kębłowski, whose research brings attention to…
April 9, 2025
Poland Betrayed
After staging a mock attack at Gleiwitz, Germany unleashed its blitzkrieg on Poland on September 1, 1939. Two week later, Soviet forces streamed into …
March 22, 2025
The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy
This detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and ant…