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Dr Jan Behrends (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany)

Prof. Arūnas Bubnys (Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania)

Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK)

Dr Sławomir Dębski (The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland)

Prof. Henryk Głębocki (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)

Dr Mateusz Gniazdowski (Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland)

Prof. Hieronim Grala (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, Poland)

Dr Łukasz Kamiński (University of Wroclaw, Poland)

Prof. Marek Kornat (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Institute of History PAN, Poland)

Prof. Dino Kritsiotis (University of Nottingham, UK)

Prof. Ivan Kurilla (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)

Dr Kai-Olaf Lang (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – German Institute for International and Security Affairs)

Prof. Šarunas Liekis (Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania)

Prof. Michał Łuczewski (Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland)

Prof. Olga Malinova (HSE University in Moscow, Russia)

Prof. David Marples (University of Alberta, Canada)

Roger Moorhouse (Royal Historical Society, UK)

Prof. Luke March (University of Edinburg, School of Social and Political Science, UK)

Prof. Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, PAN Institute of History, Poland)

Dr Nikita Petrov (International Memorial, Russia)

Dr Mykoła Riabchuk (Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine)

Prof. Per Anders Rudling (Lund University, Sweden)

Prof. Aliaksandr Smalianchuk (Institute of Slavic Studies, PAN)

Prof. Darius Staliūnas (Lithuanian Institute of History)

Prof. Mariusz Wołos (Pedagogical University of Krakow, PAN Institute of History, Poland)

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31 Jan 2026 Gennadii Korolov
Born and educated in Ukraine, Serhy Yekelchyk received a PhD from the University of Alberta in 2000. He is the author of eight books on modern Ukrainian history, Stalinism, and Russo-Ukrainian relations. His monograph, Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014), was the recipient of the Best Book Award from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, and its Ukrainian translation in 2019 received a special diploma from the Lviv Book Forum. His survey of Ukrainian history, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford University Press, 2007), was Choice Magazine’s Book of the Year and went o...
This article is devoted to the study of previously unknown documents that shed light on the fate of Jerzy Matusiński, the former Consul of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv. We introduce into scholarly circulation documents discovered in the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine. Analysis of these sources is instrumental for clarifying the particulars of the operation to detain and arrest employees of the Polish Consulate in Kyiv that was carried out by Soviet state security organs in September 1939. The article also presents internal NKVD correspondence, as well as transcripts of Jerzy Matusiński’s interrogations by investigators of the USSR ...

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