Mongraphs and Edited Collections (selected)
- Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War’s End: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010.
- Wrocławskie zadymy. Wrocław: ATUT, 2007.
- The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe Since 1989. London: Zed Books, 2006.
Translations:
- Croatian: Breme slobode. Istočna Europa nakon 1989. godine, trans. by Snježan Hasnaš (Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2007). With a new introduction.
- Italian: Il peso della libertá. l’Europa dell’est dal 1989, trans. by Gian Luigi Giacone (Torino: EDT, 2008). With a new introduction. - Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics. NY: Palgrave, 2005. Edited with Max Paul Friedman.
- Transnational Moments of Change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Edited with Gerd-Rainer Horn.
- A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Translations:
- Czech: Karneval revoluce: Střední Evropa 1989, trans. by Petruška Šustrova, (Prague: BB/art, 2005).
- Polish: Rewolucyjny karnawał. Europa Środkowa 1989, trans. by Piotr Szymor (Wrocław: Kolegium Europy Wschodniej, 2005).
- Ukrainian: Карнавал революції. Центральна Европа 1989 року, trans. by Andriy Portnov (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2006). With a new introduction.
- Romanian: Carnavalul revoluţiei: Europa Centrală, 1989, trans. by Laura Stroe-Botorcu (Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2007). - Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
- Translation: Budowanie Polski Ludowej. Robotnicy a komuniści, 1945-1950, trans. Anna Dzierzgowska (Warsaw: WAB, 2015).
Selected Articles
“Extraordinary Politics: Negotiation, Transformation, Revolution, 1988-90.” forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Polish Politics, 2026.
“Where Have all the Flowers Gone? Global Anti-Authoritarian Protest Before and Since 1989.” Forthcoming in David Danaher, Barbara Falk, and Delia Popescu, eds., Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe (Lexington Books)
“Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35.” East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 38:4 (November 2024), 1026-1033.
“Missing Pictures? Towards an Alternative Visual History of 1989,” Public History Weekly 9:5 (June 2021). Published simultaneously in German: “Fehlende Bilder? Auf dem Weg zu einer alternativen visuellen Geschichte von 1989.”
“’So That They Leave the Prison Cage as Conscious Revolutionaries’: How Polish Communists Used Prison.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions, eds. Christian Gerlach and Clemens Six (Palgrave, 2020), 407-22.
“The Ironies of Membership: The Ruling Communist Party in Comparative Perspective.” In Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991, eds. Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke (Berghahn, 2018), 352-63.
“‘A Parade of Trick Horses’: Work and the Physical Experience in the Political Prison,” in Global Convict Labour, eds. Christian G. de Vito and Alex Lichtenstein (Brill, 2015), 380-99.
“‘I felt a kind of pleasure in seeing them treat us brutally.’ The Emergence of the Political Prisoner, 1865–1910.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54:4 (2012), 863-89.
“Siły elektromagnetyczne, fale radiowe i rewolucje demokratyczne. Czy istnieje historia transgraniczna?” Wolność i Solidarność. Studia z dziejów opozycji wobec komunizmu i dyktatury, 1 (2010), 42-47.
“Borders Breached: The Transnational in Eastern Europe Since Solidarity.” Journal of Modern European History 8:2 (2010), 179-95.
“Martyrs and Neighbors: Sources of Reconciliation in Central Europe.” Common Knowledge 13:1 (Winter 2007), 149-69.
“Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989.” In Transnational Moments of Change, 207-223.
“Lviv’s Central European Renaissance, 1987-1990,” in Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture, ed. John Czaplicka (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2005), 303-12.
“Framing, Political Opportunities, and Civic Mobilization in the Eastern European Revolutions: A Case Study of Poland’s Freedom and Peace Movement.” Mobilization: An International Journal, 6:2 (2001), 193-210.
“The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland,” The American Historical Review 104:2 (April 1999), 399-425.
- Polish translation: “Płeć opozycji w komunistycznej Polsce,” in Opór i dominacja, ed. Agnieszka Pasieka and Katarzyna Zielińska (Kraków: Nomon, 2016), 91-126.
Selected print/digital media
Regular contributor to Kultura Liberalna (kulturaliberalna.pl) since 2012.
“Area Studies and the ‘False Song of Globalism,’” 2016 ASEEES Presidential Address, in NewsNet (January 2017).
“Why Poland Cares About Ukraine,” The New York Times, 10 March 2014.
“The heroes of 1989: One year in Eastern Europe shaped the way a generation sees the world,” The Boston Globe, January 15, 2014.
