Without the Belarusian People’s Republic and several military formations established at the end of the First World War and several months after its end, there would be neither the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic nor the present-day Republic of Belarus on the territory between the Bug and Berezina rivers. by Wojciech Stanisławski For many reasons,…
Appeal to people of goodwill in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine to reject the principle of “division of the sphere of influence” The current international political crisis caused by the concentration of Russian troops on the Russian-Ukrainian border, the threat of war and the violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, fill us, historians from Poland,…
On 1 September 1939, the attack of Nazi Germany on Poland marked the beginning of the Second World War. After 16 days, the armies of the USSR, which was, at that time, an ally of the Third Reich, also crossed the Polish border. One consequence of these actions was the division of the territories of…
The Enlightenment, like no other age, created a myth of its own splendor. These were supposed to be the times of entering onto the road of progress and liberation from obscurantism, promising freedom and a truly happy life. Curtis G. Murphy’s book From Citizens to Subjects shatters this image. by Michał Rzeczycki According to…
