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Zasztowt, Leszek

Leszek Zasztowt is a historian, ordinary professor and a former director of the Ludwik & Aleksander Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science (2007-2015), Polish Academy of Sciences, and professor of the University of Warsaw at the Center for East European Studies.
Under a Double Headed Eagle: J贸zef Mianowski</a>

Under a Double Headed Eagle: J贸zef Mianowski

What was life like in the territories annexed by Russia in the 19th century? What were the views and attitudes of the Poles living in lands belonging to the Russian Empire? How did people arrange their lives when they did not take up revolutionary action and foreswore an open struggle with the Tsarist regime? Could one be a Polish patriot without fighting gun in hand for independence? The Russians believed that Poles were genetically preordained to be anti-Russian.

Under a Double Headed Eagle: J贸zef Mianowski</a>

Under a Double Headed Eagle: J贸zef Mianowski

What was life like in the territories annexed by Russia in the 19th century? What were the views and attitudes of the Poles living in lands belonging to the Russian Empire? How did people arrange their lives when they did not take up revolutionary action and foreswore an open struggle with the Tsarist regime? Could one be a Polish patriot without fighting gun in hand for independence? The Russians believed that Poles were genetically preordained to be anti-Russian.