John Micgiel

University of Warsaw, Centre for East European Studies, Faculty Member

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Senate Hearing

The Debate on NATO enragement, 1997

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Coercion and the establishment of Communist rule in Poland, 1944- 1947

The European Union

European Journal of Political Theory, 2003

The purpose of this article is to discuss the type of attachment and allegiance propounded in the... more The purpose of this article is to discuss the type of attachment and allegiance propounded in the recently proclaimed Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Charters such as Bills of Rights are generally held to be reflective of and evocative of a rights-based constitutional patriotism. The EU is not a state; there are widely different conceptions of what it is and should be, one of which is the vision of a Europe of nation states. Is the spirit of the Charter thus instead that of deep diversity, i.e. reflective of a wide diversity of views, visions and values as to what the EU is and ought to be? The article contrasts constitutional patriotism and deep diversity as alternative underlying philosophies of the Charter and also briefly examines the Charter's presumed ability to produce either type of sentiment of allegiance.

Warsaw East European Review

Joseph Rothschild, 1931-2000

Wilsonian East Central Europe, Current Perspectives", ed. John S. Micgiel, New York 1995 : [recenzja] / Hanna Marczewska-Zagdańska

Perspectives on Political and Economic Transitions after Communism

Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. By Paul Robert Magocsi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. xiii, 218 pp. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $75.00, hard bound

Slavic Review, 1995

“Bandits and Reactionaries”: The Suppression of the Opposition in Poland, 1944-1946

The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944–1949

Karel Kaplan. The Short March: the Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948. New York: St. Martin's, 1987

Slovene Studies Journal, 1990

Symposium "Slovenia Yesterday and Today": Introduction

Slovene Studies Journal, 2005

Na Zew Ziemi Wilenskiej.by Edmund Banasikowski

Na Zew Ziemi Wilenskiej

Slavic Review, 1989

Polska Walczaca (1939-1945). Volume 1: Bitwa

Slavic Review, 1990

“Frenzy and Ferocity”: The Stalinist Judicial System in Poland, 1944–47, and the Search for Redress

The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, 1994

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Article usage statistics combine cumulative total PDF downloads and full-text HTML views from pub... more Article usage statistics combine cumulative total PDF downloads and full-text HTML views from publication date (but no earlier than 25 Jun 2011, launch date of this website) to 14 Feb 2013. Article views are only counted from this site. Although these data are updated every 24 hours, there may be a 48-hour delay before the most recent numbers are available.

John S. Micgiel, ed. Wilsonian East Central Europe: Current Perspectives. New York: Pilsudski Institute, 1995. Pp.181

Austrian History Yearbook, 1998

The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-1948

American Historical Review, 1993

Joseph Rothschild, 1931-2000

Book Reviews by John Micgiel

Review of A Century of Populist Demagogues

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 2022

During the Nuremberg trials, Hermann Goering famously observed that "the people can always be bro... more During the Nuremberg trials, Hermann Goering famously observed that "the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in every country."

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Senate Hearing

The Debate on NATO enragement, 1997

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Coercion and the establishment of Communist rule in Poland, 1944- 1947

The European Union

European Journal of Political Theory, 2003

Warsaw East European Review

Joseph Rothschild, 1931-2000

Wilsonian East Central Europe, Current Perspectives", ed. John S. Micgiel, New York 1995 : [recenzja] / Hanna Marczewska-Zagdańska

Perspectives on Political and Economic Transitions after Communism

Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. By Paul Robert Magocsi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. xiii, 218 pp. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $75.00, hard bound

Slavic Review, 1995

“Bandits and Reactionaries”: The Suppression of the Opposition in Poland, 1944-1946

The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944–1949

Karel Kaplan. The Short March: the Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948. New York: St. Martin's, 1987

Slovene Studies Journal, 1990

Symposium "Slovenia Yesterday and Today": Introduction

Slovene Studies Journal, 2005

Na Zew Ziemi Wilenskiej.by Edmund Banasikowski

Na Zew Ziemi Wilenskiej

Slavic Review, 1989

Polska Walczaca (1939-1945). Volume 1: Bitwa

Slavic Review, 1990

“Frenzy and Ferocity”: The Stalinist Judicial System in Poland, 1944–47, and the Search for Redress

The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, 1994

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Visit the Brill Website: Www. Brill. NL Brill Leiden• Boston

John S. Micgiel, ed. Wilsonian East Central Europe: Current Perspectives. New York: Pilsudski Institute, 1995. Pp.181

Austrian History Yearbook, 1998

The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-1948

American Historical Review, 1993

Joseph Rothschild, 1931-2000

Review of A Century of Populist Demagogues

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 2022

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Warsaw East European Review X

Warsaw East European Review X, 2020

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Warsaw East European Review

Warsaw East European Review VII, 2017

I recently found myself amongst six former presidents from our part of the world, and one of them... more I recently found myself amongst six former presidents from our part of the world, and one of them, the former president of Moldova, Petru Lucinschi, told an old Soviet joke-Kuchma laughed, Kwaśniewski and Yushchenko laughed. And then someone said, "All we have left of the Soviet Union are jokes..." I'd like to ask you all somewhat perversely, besides jokes, is there any good memory left behind from this empire? Did the Soviet Union leave anything good behind? I mean the Soviet Union not as the Soviet Union itself, but also as the whole region, in other words the Warsaw Pact countries, as well as other communist countries and parties in the world. So, we see the empire as Alexei Salmin, the Russian political scientist, views it-as a concentrated orb: the Russian Federation, around it the USSR, then the Warsaw Pact, followed by other communist countries and finally the Comintern, and after its dissolution, parties cooperating with the Kremlin from all over the world. So, we see the entire empire, not just the Soviet Union, and the question is this-did it leave anything good behind? Surely every empire leaves something good behind… John S. Micgiel 2 : Well, It's not as if the day after the fall of the Roman Empire everyone was saying: "Darn! What a great empire that was." No-it's a historical reconstruction which sometimes takes ages. When asked whether the French revolution was a success, Zhou Enlai is rumoured to have answered that it was too early to tell. There's something in that. 12 WEEReview vii/2017 What's Left of the Soviet Union Kowal: Do you think that in a hundred years it could turn out that someone will write a book about the positive aspects of the Soviet empire? Micgiel: Undoubtedly. It is the right of every generation to review what was written previously and ignore things that don't match hypotheses. Political scientists have plenty of experience in this, while historians judge how bad or good things were, according to the source materials they have. At the moment, it is hard for me to look at the remnants of the Soviet Union and say something positive on the subject. In former countries of the Eastern Bloc, I see the beginnings of authoritarianism without even mentioning the Russian Federation itself, and I don't feel it will end well. A lot depends on civic society, which reacts to and defends its rights in a democracy. Kowal: Language, common communication-universal scholarly standardisation of large territories thanks to the knowledge of Russian. Is there anything good we can say about this now? Or is there a hypothesis that someone might one day pronounce? Professor? Adam D. Rotfeld 3 : These questions are formulated a bit like the ones in today's media, where one's answer must be brief and intrinsically simplified. Many people feel there was nothing good. Of course, this is only partially true. This was a certain process, which proceeded differently in different periods; it had different causes and foundations. Different in Russia, different in Yugoslavia, and even more so in Poland. Why don't we consider, for example, these three countries? The difference between Poland, Yugoslavia and Russia is based on the fact that in Yugoslavia and Russia this was not a system imposed from outside. It was the result of internal evolution, coup d'état, revolution-no matter how we call it-there were internal causes and sources. No one imposed this on Russia from outside. If there was such a group which imposed a new method of rule on the nation, then it was an internal group. It was a "homemade" process, or the result of internal Russian evolution. From the point of view of Russia, it can undisputedly be said that the Bolsheviks' exercise of power was unusually brutal and bloody. This was taking shortcuts, bypassing history. Russia paid an extremely high price for this. But it is also a fact, that in the history of Russia, there was never such a leap as in the decade after 1924-in other words, from the death of Lenin until 1934, for which the entire society-especially the peasants and intellectual elites-paid a nightmarish price. Because of this, over the course of one decade, Russia became a military power that built the foundations of heavy industry necessary for its military needs. I won't get into details here, but in 1934, the Great Terror began. An-14 WEEReview vii/2017 What's Left of the Soviet Union Kowal: Yes, but that plough that Professor Rotfeld referred to, ploughed especially deep. If we take the Eastern peoples, they were the ones who often lost their identities through policy-through this very plough that went too deep. Pełczyńska-Nałęcz: If we are talking about the so-called "natives", then yes. But I am talking about Russians, who in fact exist on these territories and there were a lot more of them during the times of the Soviet Union. We can bemoan the native people, that their cultures are dying and were devastated by the Soviet Union, but they are the minority in Siberia, and have been for decades. However, for a large part of Russians from the countryside, the Soviet Union was in reality something better than today's Russia. The quality of life in the countries of Central Asia, which we have a tendency to forget, was also totally different. And what is happening today in countries like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan is evidently civilizational regression when compared to Soviet times. For those people who remember, both Russians and local people who fled from there, who have some memory and are able to think independently, there is a feeling of obvious loss-and this loss is not just subjective, but real. Of course, we're not talking about the Soviet Union from its worst period, the end of the 1930s, but the 1970s and 1980s, there is a clear drop in the quality of life, civilizational level, in everything. As a result of Soviet activity, a giant generational gap appeared in Russia. The generation of all those who stuck their necks out, who thought independently, was quite simply annihilated. These people were eliminated and could no longer pass on anything, either on a family or educational level, or even on the genetic level. On the other hand, those who largely did not stand out from the crowd or think, remained. Adverse selection has a massive influence on Russia today. Kowal: At the moment, we still lack one term in the discussion, which has been lost somewhere-totalitarianism. Dariusz Gawin 5 : Exactly right. I wanted to introduce this term, as it is key to our discussion. On the one hand, we use the term 'empire', which is well-rooted in history. As mentioned earlier, from the time of the Roman Empire, subsequent empires rose and fell. In this sense, the Soviet empire retains its similarity to other historical 5 Dariusz Gawin-Intellectual historian, publicist, deputy director of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, head of the Starzyński Institute. He

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Warsaw East European Review

Warsaw East European Review, 2018

Valeriy Kravchenko (Ukraine)-Change of the Security Environment in Transatlantic Region and its I... more

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Selected Articles from a Decade of the Warsaw East European Review

Warsaw East European Review, 2021

zas biegnie niezwykle szybko. Tym na pozór banalnym stwierdzeniem chciałbym opisać odczucia moje ... more zas biegnie niezwykle szybko. Tym na pozór banalnym stwierdzeniem chciałbym opisać odczucia moje własne, jako osoby od lat kierującej Studium Europy Wschodniej, a także i moich kolegów, którzy stwierdziwszy fakt zbliżającego się Jubileuszu 30-lecia, przyjęli to z ogromnym zaskoczeniem. To prawda, można się zastanawiać, jak to się stało, że 30 lat przebiegło tak szybko, ale ogromnie uspokaja nadzieja, wręcz przekonanie, że tego czasu nie zmarnowaliśmy. Nasze 30-lecie to bowiem setki konferencji, to setki wydawnictw, to już tysiące absolwentów szkół i programów stypendialnych, to także rozległa współpraca międzynarodowa, która zaowocowała wręcz założeniem kilku Stacji SEW poza granicami. A wreszcie to przywrócenie, w 1998 r., po ponad półwieczu nieistnienia regularnych studiów wschodnich w Polsce (ostatni nabór studentów, w Wilnie i Warszawie, przeprowadzono latem 1939 r.). A dziś, w dniu Jubileuszu 30-lecia, Studium może się chlubić grupą już kilkuset absolwentów -młodych dobrze wykształconych specjalistów "od spraw wschodnich", osiągających niekiedy już poważne kariery, pochodzących przy tym zarówno z Polski, jak i dzięki stypendiom rządowym, z całego regionu. Tu mogę jedynie potwierdzić -"kadry są najważniejsze"… Zacząłem się zastanawiać, jak można i jak należy ten Jubileusz uczcić. Zbiegło się to z faktem, że rok 2020 jest naprawdę rokiem nadzwyczajnym. Rozwój epidemii koronawirusa przyniósł decyzję zamknięcia najpierw zajęć akademickich i przeniesienia ich do systemu on line, a następnie przejście całego Zespołu Studium na wiele tygodni do pracy zdalnej. To, wbrew pozorom, pomogło w decyzji o sposobach uczczenia Jubileuszu, albowiem pozwoliło zmienić bieżące obowiązki administracyjne na spisywanie, opracowywanie i korekty tekstów.

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Warsaw East European Review Vol. IX/2019

Warsaw East European Review, 2019

held its fifteenth annual Warsaw East European Conference. The topic was Independence and the mee... more held its fifteenth annual Warsaw East European Conference. The topic was Independence and the meeting was part of the celebrations surrounding Poland's one hundred-year anniversary of rebirth following one hundred and twenty-three years under foreign rule. Neighboring states were celebrating the gift of full sovereignty similarly and scholars were looking back at the achievements and missed opportunities of countries in the region. Our meeting brought some 75 scholars from 13 countries together to share their research and exchange ideas at conference facilities of the Old Library of Warsaw University. Several roundtables organized together with partner institutions provided broad views of the challenges that faced the region following independence.

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