Dr Bartłomiej Gajos
Senior Research Fellow, historian. He earned his PhD degree at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union 1917-1991, particularly the period of revolution and civil war (1917-1922), and politics of memory. His current research project "Russia’s Politics of Memory Towards Poland and Ukraine, 1999–2022" aims to determine to what extent Russia's politics of memory has been a result of contingencies and spontaneous reactions to changing socio-political realities and the international situation or one may observe a long-term and coherent strategy in this area intended to delegitimize the existence of the Ukrainian state and weakening Poland's position within the European Union and NATO. He is going to apply text-mining methods. He is a member of the editorial board of the online journal Novaya Polsha. He was a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (2019/2020) and a laureate of the START program of the Foundation for Polish Science (2020/2021). He cooperated with the Polish Institute of International Affairs on the publishing series "Polish Diplomatic Documents." He hosts a podcast on history and international affairs, „Polihistor” (in Polish).