Dr Patryk Jan Babiracki

[Dr Patryk Babiracki]

Associate Professor, History

Last Updated: July 20, 2020

patryk@uta.edu

about me

Research Interests

As a researcher, I have been interested in the transnational and cultural dimensions of Soviet and East European communisms during the Cold War. Recently, I completed three projects. The first is a monograph titled Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). The book explores Soviet and Polish communists efforts to consolidate the new empire through broadly-understood international cultural initiatives. The second is a co-edited collection of essays titled Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange in the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s (Texas A&M University Press, 2014). The third is a collection of essays (co-edited with Austin Jersild), titled Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War: Exploring the Second World (Palgrave, 2016). I am presently working on a monograph tentatively called "Reinventing Poland: The Poznań International Fair, National Identity and the Rebellion of East European Peripheries, 1918-1990s." Funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and based on archives in Poland, Russia, Germany, France, UK and US, it explores the unknown efforts to reframe Polish national identity and renegotiate the country's relationship with the West.

Teaching Interests

Modern Europe, Poland, Russia / USSR, theory and methodology of history

Education

- 2008 PhD in History
  Johns Hopkins University, 2008
- 2006 MA in History
  Johns Hopkins University, 2006
- 2002 BA in Russian Studies
  Portland State University, 2002

Appointments

- Aug 2009 to Present Associate Professor
  HIstory, University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington,
- Aug 2008 to Aug 2009 Temporary Lecturer
  School of HIstory and Archives, University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)

Support & Funding

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- June 2015 to Aug 2016 The Poznań International Fair: A Cold War History sponsored by University of Texas at Arlington - $10000
  Patryk Babiracki (Funded)
- July 2010 to Dec 2010 Jozef Tischner Fellowships for Polish and Polish-American Scholars sponsored by The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) - $9494
  Patryk Babiracki (Funded)

Publications

In Process

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http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319325699

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http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3607

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http://www.tamupress.com/product/Cold-War-Crossings,7727.aspx

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http://neweasterneurope.eu/2017/09/27/to-fight-the-new-cold-war-americans-must-forget-the-old-one/

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https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ab_imperio/v2011/2011.4.babiracki.pdf

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/13/why-americans-keep-falling-for- russian-propaganda/?utm_term=.60af8ab6cef1

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http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/2338-who-is-evil-now-how-russia-came-back- to-haunt-trump-s-america%3E/

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https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/125279/babiracki-rotfeld-and-torkunov-white-spots-black-spots- difficult

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https://www.pol-int.org/en/node/3679#r5702

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https://networks.h-net.org/node/9669/reviews/125866/babiracki-domber-empowering-revolution-america- poland-and-end-cold-war

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http://uncpressblog.com/2015/05/28/patryk-babiracki- post-soviet-ukraine-not-unlike-postwar-poland-what-putins-russia-and-the-west-can-learn-from-the- cold-war/

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http://uncpressblog.com/2015/06/22/patryk-babiracki-showcasing-hard-power-russia-reveals- her-longstanding-soft-spot/

2017

To Fight the New Cold War, We Must Forget the Old One
[Babiracki, Patryk]. New Eastern Europe.
http://neweasterneurope.eu/2017/09/27/to-fight-the-new-cold-war-americans-must-forget-the-old-one/

Why Americans Keep Falling for Russian Propaganda
[Babiracki, Patryk]. "The Washington Post".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/13/why-americans-keep-falling-for- russian-propaganda/?utm_term=.60af8ab6cef1

Who is Evil Now? How Russia Came Back to Haunt Trump's America
[Babiracki, Patryk]. "New Eastern Europe online".
http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/2338-who-is-evil-now-how-russia-came-back- to-haunt-trump-s-america%3E/

Putin's Postmodern War With the West
[Babiracki, Patryk]. Wilson Quarterly.

2016

Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War: Exploring the Second World
[Babiracki, Patryk, Babiracki, Patryk, Jersild, Austin]. New York: "Palgrave Macmillan".
http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319325699

Review of White Spots / Black Spots: Difficult Matters in Polish-Russian Relations, 1918-2008, H-Diplo,
[Babiracki, Patryk].
https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/125279/babiracki-rotfeld-and-torkunov-white-spots-black-spots- difficult

Review of Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies
[Babiracki, Patryk, Vowinckel, Annette, Payk, Marcus, Lindenberger, Thomas]. Russian Journal of Communication. 8(3), 315-16.

Introduction
Exploring the Second World: Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War
[Babiracki, Patryk, Jersild, Austin, Babiracki , Patryk, Jersild, Austin]. 1-16. "Palgrave Macmillan".

2015

Showcasing Hard Power, Russia Reveals Her Longstanding Soft Spot
[Babiracki, Patryk].
http://uncpressblog.com/2015/06/22/patryk-babiracki-showcasing-hard-power-russia-reveals- her-longstanding-soft-spot/

Post-Soviet Ukraine: Not Unlike Postwar Poland. What Putin’s Russia (and the West) Can Learn from the Cold War
[Babiracki, Patryk].
http://uncpressblog.com/2015/05/28/patryk-babiracki- post-soviet-ukraine-not-unlike-postwar-poland-what-putins-russia-and-the-west-can-learn-from-the- cold-war/

Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957
[Babiracki, Patryk]. "monograph, University of North Carolina Press, 2015".
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3607

Review of The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics
[Babiracki, Patryk, Karner, Christian , Mertens, Bram]. The Sarmatian Review. 1895-1897.

2014

Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange in the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
[Babiracki, Patryk, Babiracki, Patryk, Zimmer, Kenyon]. "Texas A&M University Press, 2014".
http://www.tamupress.com/product/Cold-War-Crossings,7727.aspx

Interfacing the Soviet Bloc: Recent Literature and New Paradigms
[Babiracki, Patryk]. Ab Imperio.(4), 376-407.
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ab_imperio/v2011/2011.4.babiracki.pdf

The Taste of Red Watermelon: Polish Peasants Visit Soviet Collective Farms, 1949-1952”
Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange in the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
[Babiracki, Patryk, Babiracki, Patryk, Zimmer, Kenyon].(40-77.), "Texas A&M University Press".

2011

Co się Sowietom nie udało: Kultura polska a imperium Stalina,” (“What the Soviets Failed to Accomplish: Polish Culture and Stalin’s Empire
[Babiracki, Patryk]. Res Publica Nowa.(201-202 ), 50-56.

2009

Between Compromise and Distrust: The Soviet Information Bureau’s Operations in Poland, 1945-1953
[Babiracki, Patryk]. Cultural and Social History. 6.3., 345-367. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/147800409x445978

2007

Imperial Heresies: Polish Students in the Soviet Union, 1948-1957
[Babiracki, Patryk]. Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space. 4, 199-236. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/imp.2007.0031

2006

Enemy to Friend: Soviet Union, Poland and the Refashioning of the Imperial Identity in Pravda, 1943-1947
Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Inequality, Identity and Institutions, Princeton Institute for International Regional Studies Monograph Series #4
[Babiracki, Patryk, Riedl, Rachel Beatty]. 132-154. "Princeton: World Politics Press,".

Unknown

Review of Gregory Domber, Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War, H- Poland:
[Babiracki, Patryk] (1925).
https://networks.h-net.org/node/9669/reviews/125866/babiracki-domber-empowering-revolution-america- poland-and-end-cold-war

Review of Jan Szumski, Polityka a historia. ZSRR wobec nauki historycznej w Polsce w latach 1945-1964
[Babiracki, Patryk] (1925).
https://www.pol-int.org/en/node/3679#r5702

Two Stairways to Socialism: Soviet Youth Activists in Polish Spaces, 1950s-1960s
Exploring the Second World: Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War
[Babiracki, Patryk, Babiracki, Patryk, Jersild, Austin] (1925). 79-106. "Palgrave Macmillan". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32570-5_4

Presentations

- November 2017
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Populism Under a Spotlight", Berlin. (November 5, 2017).
- November 2017
  Babiracki, Patryk, "The Intellectual Dimension of Soviet Soft Power in Eastern Europe", Chicago, IL. (November 1, 2017).
- July 2017
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Polish Students in the Soviet Union: Non-Conformity and Conflict, 1948-1957". (July 17, 2017).
- May 2016
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Labor Mobility at the Poznań International Fair, 1940s-1960s", St. Antony's College, Oxford. (May 19, 2016).
- January 2016
  Babiracki, Patryk, "1956 and Eastern European Literatures: Theories, Practices, People", Washington, DC: . (January 1, 2016).
- January 2016
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Sound and International Imagination in Cold War Central Europe"", Washington, DC: . (January 1, 2016).
- November 2015
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Cold War Connections between the 'Second' and 'Third' Worlds", Philadelphia. (November 21, 2015).
- November 2015
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Communist Comparisons: New Approaches to Comparative History in the Soviet Bloc", Philadelphia. (November 20, 2015).
- November 2014
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Cultural Contacts Behind the Wall: Cultural Exchange and Statehood in the Eastern Bloc,", San Antonio. (November 22, 2014).
- May 2014
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Soviet Soft Power in Eastern Europe, 1945-1956", University of Sheffield. (May 16, 2014).
- November 2012
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Soviet Soft Power, Polish Jews and Anti-Semitism, 1943-1957", Budapest. (November 7, 2012).
- November 2011
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Cultural Diplomacy with a ‘People’s Democracy:’ the Soviet Union and Poland, 1944-1948", Washington, DC. . (November 19, 2011).
- November 2011
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Friendship: The Evolution of a Leitmotif in Transnational Post-Stalinist Discourse", Washington, DC. . (November 19, 2011).
- December 2010
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Towards Modernity: Early Modern Republicanism and Modernizing Empires", Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) . (December 16, 2010).
- December 2010
  Babiracki, Patryk, "An Army of Skeptics: Polish Military Units in the USSR and the Meaning of the New Soviet Empire, 1943- 1945", Vienna, Austria. (December 10, 2010).
- November 2010
  Babiracki, Patryk, "An Army of Skeptics: Polish Military Units in the USSR and the Meaning of the New Soviet Empire, 1943- 1945", Budapest, Hungary. (November 23, 2010).
- March 2010
  Babiracki, Patryk, "From Reconstructing Repression to the Search for Synergy : Travel and the Changing Scholarship on the Former Soviet Bloc", Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University. (March 13, 2010).
- November 2009
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Soviet-East European Interactions during the Cold War: In Search for an Analytic Paradigm", Boston. (November 14, 2009).
- October 2009
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Soviet-East European Interactions during the Cold War: In Search for an Analytic Paradigm", Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. (October 31, 2009).
- April 2009
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Unlikely Heroes: The New Polish Literature and the Soviet Cultural Politics in the Early Cold War (1945- 1953)", University College Dublin. (April 23, 2009).
- March 2009
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Soviet-Polish Literary Contacts and the Politics of the ‘Raw Deal,’ 1945-1953,", Cambridge (UK). (March 30, 2009).
- November 2007
  Babiracki, Patryk, "A Bittersweet Success: The Soviet Cultural Expansion into Poland, 1945-1958", New Orleans. (November 16, 2007).
- April 2005
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Methods, Resources and Exercises for Teaching Cold War History in High School", Moscow on December 3, 2005. (April 8, 2005).
- March 2003
  Babiracki, Patryk, "The Abandoned Forum: Pre-Revolutionary Anniversaries of the Emancipation of the Russian Serfs, 1861- 1917". (March , 2003).
- March 1991
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Polish Students, Communist Bureaucrats, and the Other Side of the Soviet Empire's Engagement with Poland, 1945-1960", Harvard University. (March 17, 1991).
- January Unknown
  Babiracki, Patryk, "Seeds of Doubt: How Polish Peasants toured Soviet Collective Farms, 1949-1952,". (January 1).

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