Explore our collection of articles! The compilation has been created for all those wishing to learn more about the complex issues underpinning 20th-century European history and memory. It consists of both academic and popular pieces, all written and/or edited by experts in their field. The articles cover a wide range of topics, from historical summaries and social history to contemporary commemoration practices.

The Slovak National Uprising
Daria Czarnecka

The Slovak National Uprising

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21 August 2015
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  • Slovak Uprising
  • 1944
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Daria Czarnecka

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

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21 August 2015
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  • communism
  • 1968
  • Prague Spring
  • Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Uprising – 1 August 1944
Daria Czarnecka

The Warsaw Uprising – 1 August 1944

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21 August 2015
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  • Second World War
  • Warsaw Uprising
  • 1944
Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact - 1 July 1991
Daria Czarnecka

Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact - 1 July 1991

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21 August 2015
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  • 1991
  • fall of communism
  • Eastern Bloc
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Treaty of Friendship
The Poznań Uprising of June 1956
Andrzej Włusek

The Poznań Uprising of June 1956

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21 August 2015
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  • 1956
  • communism
  • Poznan Uprising
June 1953 - workers strike in East-Germany
Andrzej Włusek

June 1953 - workers' strike in East-Germany

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21 August 2015
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  • communism
  • East Germany
  • GDR
  • SED
First transport to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Daria Czarnecka

First transport to Auschwitz Concentration Camp

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21 August 2015
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  • Holocaust
  • Shoah
  • Second World War
  • memory of the Holocaust
  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp
The tragedy in Tiananmen Square
Małgorzata Korwin-Mikke

The tragedy in Tiananmen Square

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21 August 2015
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  • communism
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Chinese Communist Party
  • Mao Zedong
Treaty of Trianon
Łukasz Nowok

Treaty of Trianon

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21 August 2015
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  • Great War
  • First World War
  • Treaty of Trianon
  • peace agreement
First partially free elections in the Soviet bloc – Poland 1989
Daria Czarnecka

First partially free elections in the Soviet bloc – Poland 1989

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21 August 2015
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  • 1989
  • Solidarity
  • fall of communism
  • Eastern Bloc
  • elections
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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21 August 2015
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  • Hungarian Revolution
  • 1956
  • Hungary
Unemployment in Interwar Cracow and the Great Economic Crisis: Conditions, Consequences and Counteraction
Krzysztof Kloc

Unemployment in Interwar Cracow and the Great Economic Crisis: Conditions, Consequences and Counteraction

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20 August 2015
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  • Great Crisis
  • interwar
  • Cracow
  • 1930s
  • thirties
The Possibility of Remembering economic Crisis
Łukasz Mańczyk

The Possibility of Remembering economic Crisis

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20 August 2015
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  • Dorota Masłowska
  • Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną
  • Snow White and Russian Red
  • White and Red
The Emotional Climate in Poland in the 80s: A New Perspective on the Social History of The Polish People’s Republic
Marta Cobel-Tokarska, Marcin Zaremba

The Emotional Climate in Poland in the 80s: A New Perspective on the Social History of The Polish People’s Republic

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20 August 2015
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  • Poland
  • 1980s
  • Polish People’s Republic
  • emotions
The emergence of the modern consciousness of crisis
Christian Wevelsiep

The emergence of the modern consciousness of crisis

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20 August 2015
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  • crisis
  • modernity
  • politics
  • economy
  • religion
Review: Through History with Crisis. Anna Żelazowska-Przewłoka, Crisis as an Element of the Economic Situation
Przemysław Furgacz

Review: Through History with Crisis. Anna Żelazowska-Przewłoka, Crisis as an Element of the Economic Situation

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20 August 2015
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  • crisis
  • book review
  • economic crisis
Parallels in the Economic Business Cycles in Slovakia in the Period between WWI and WWII, and after 1989
Ľudovít Hallon

Parallels in the Economic Business Cycles in Slovakia in the Period between WWI and WWII, and after 1989

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20 August 2015
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  • 1989
  • crisis
  • interwar
  • Slovakia
Harsh Reality. Living in Warsaw under Hyperinflation in 1923
Izabela Mrzygłód

Harsh Reality. Living in Warsaw under Hyperinflation in 1923

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19 August 2015
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  • hyperinflation
  • Warsaw
  • Great Crisis
  • 1920s
  • twenties
  • interwar