Foreword

Since 2004, the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw has organized an annual international “Warsaw East European Conference" with the aim of bringing together experienced academics as well as young researchers from all over the world. A printed anthology of some of the best papers presented through 2010 was published in 2011. Annually thereafter, the Warsaw East European Review was published to highlight the scholarship of researchers who assembled at the University of Warsaw to present the results of their research and to network. The COVID coronavirus pandemic prevented such a meeting in 2020 and so, instead of an annual WEER, a sampling of the previous nine years' papers has been compiled and is presented herein. Multi-disciplinary in nature, the selection reflects the geographical focus of the Centre for East European Studies and the work of a subsection of colleagues whose interaction during the confer-ences resulted in the enhancement of their presentations and subsequent publications.
issued on the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Warsaw University’s Centre for East European Studies, this compilation is one of thirty publications it is hoped will appear to commemorate and celebrate the Centre's founding and activities. On behalf of the Centre, its faculty and students, I invite readers to sample the potpourri below.

Dr. John S. Micgiel
Visiting Professor,
The Centre for East European Studies,
University of Warsaw
Editor