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CREEES 2026 Vucinich Fellow: Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz
CREEES is proud to welcome our 2026 Vucinich Fellow, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz. Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz is a historian specializing in Eastern European history and focuses particularly on the experiences of Jewish communists. She is affiliated with both the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought. To learn more about Katarzyna's research, attend her presentation, "Jewish "Reds": Radicals in Poland, 1918–1968 — A Collective Biography" on Friday, May 15.
New Digital Exhibition: Tamizdat@Stanford
Explore Tamizdat@Stanford, a new Stanford Libraries collection co-curated by CREEES visiting scholar Ilaria Sicari, with Hoover archivists Anatol Shmelev and Katharina Friedla, and Stanford Librarian Barbara Krupa. The Russian acronym tamizdat - literally meaning ‘published over there’ - is generally used to indicate Soviet, Central and Eastern European texts that were banned in the Eastern Bloc, and clandestinely smuggled out and published in the West during the Cold War.
Supported by CREEES, CESTA, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford Library and the European Union which, through its Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, funds research Transnational Book Diplomacy beyond the Cultural Cold War: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the Tamizdat, of which this exhibition is one of the outcomes.
