Education
Jagiellonian University.
Jagiellonian University.
Professor of Jagiellonian University and Business College - National Louis University in Nowy Sącz, former (1996) visiting professor of East-Central European history at Rice University. Chief editor of socio-cultural magazine (bi-monthly) "Arcana". Author of four books, some 60 historical publications (articles and studies) in scientific periodicals and dozens of articles, reviews and interviews, including many in the underground publications up to 1989.
His main research areas are cultural and political history and thought of Eastern Europe in 19th and 20th centuries, political philosophy.
International political relations. Modern mass-media. He is considered one of top Polish experts on past and present Polish-Russian relations.
1989 - POLCUL (Polish Cultural Foundation) Award in Journalism (in underground publications during the martial law in Poland); 1995 - "Przegląd Wschodni" (Eastern Review) Award for the best book on Eastern European History 1994, 1995 and 1998 CLIO (by Commission of the Polish Historical Books Editors) for the best book on history published in Poland; 1999 Jerzy Lojek Foundation/Institute of Joseph Piłsudski in New York Award for the whole output.
Member of Polish Academy of Sciences, where he is the director of Department of Russian and Soviet Studies. Member of the Advisory Board of Polskie Radio since 1998.