Tom Junes
@tomjunes.bsky.social
Historian, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history.
https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history.
https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
It seems like there's some renewed interest in student politics. I will be adding my two cents in Switzerland next week... #StudentPolitics #StudentMovement #Poland #Communism #unibern
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It seems like there's some renewed interest in student politics. I will be adding my two cents in Switzerland next week... #StudentPolitics #StudentMovement #Poland #Communism #unibern
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
www.ub.unibe.ch/teilbiblioth...
WE'RE HIRING!...if you're a PhD student in Poland and are interested in youth under communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe...consider applying to join my research team in Warsaw!
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
October 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
WE'RE HIRING!...if you're a PhD student in Poland and are interested in youth under communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe...consider applying to join my research team in Warsaw!
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
US media coverage of the Polish president's visit to the White House...apparently, Poland is a very important ally...
September 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
US media coverage of the Polish president's visit to the White House...apparently, Poland is a very important ally...
nice to see some comparative work being done on Polish history and very happy to have been able to contribute to this initiative with some #comparative reflections on communist rule in #Poland and #Bulgaria... coming out soon in print...
August 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
nice to see some comparative work being done on Polish history and very happy to have been able to contribute to this initiative with some #comparative reflections on communist rule in #Poland and #Bulgaria... coming out soon in print...
today at #ICCEES2025 - Session 5, 14:45-16:15 - room A5.04
July 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
today at #ICCEES2025 - Session 5, 14:45-16:15 - room A5.04
In London for #ICCEES2025... This Tuesday, 22 July, 14:45-16:15 we'll be holding a round table with members of the Advisory Board of my NCN-funded project 'Comparative Perspectives on Students, Generations and Communism'...
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In London for #ICCEES2025... This Tuesday, 22 July, 14:45-16:15 we'll be holding a round table with members of the Advisory Board of my NCN-funded project 'Comparative Perspectives on Students, Generations and Communism'...
Nawrocki's win was a serious blow to the governing coalition, but it could potentially backfire in PiS as well...liberals and conservatives have let the far-right genie out of the bottle...some thoughts on the presidential election in Poland... balkaninsight.com/2025/06/04/n...
June 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Nawrocki's win was a serious blow to the governing coalition, but it could potentially backfire in PiS as well...liberals and conservatives have let the far-right genie out of the bottle...some thoughts on the presidential election in Poland... balkaninsight.com/2025/06/04/n...
Conservative values anno 2025...pimp meets puppy killer...
May 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Conservative values anno 2025...pimp meets puppy killer...
for those who think Trump is some master negotiator who will convince or coerce 'the Russians'...just remember that despite nearly four decades of trying there is still no Trump Tower in Moscow...
May 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
for those who think Trump is some master negotiator who will convince or coerce 'the Russians'...just remember that despite nearly four decades of trying there is still no Trump Tower in Moscow...
WE'RE HIRING! Four 3-year Doctoral Research Assistant positions in my research project on students, generations, and communism...candidates have to be enrolled in a Polish doctoral school programme...otherwise, there's quite some flexibility...links here:
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
May 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
WE'RE HIRING! Four 3-year Doctoral Research Assistant positions in my research project on students, generations, and communism...candidates have to be enrolled in a Polish doctoral school programme...otherwise, there's quite some flexibility...links here:
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
isppan.bip.gov.pl/search/jobof...
Just a reminder that there are presidential elections in Poland this weekend...
May 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just a reminder that there are presidential elections in Poland this weekend...
Interesting! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
May 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Interesting! blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
21. Flee to Canada...it's not the fact that Snyder left the US because of MAGA etc...it's because he did so after moralising and telling others to take a bullet for freedom...it's the hypocrisy (and resulting cowardice) that should be criticised...not the perceived threat of fascism...
March 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
21. Flee to Canada...it's not the fact that Snyder left the US because of MAGA etc...it's because he did so after moralising and telling others to take a bullet for freedom...it's the hypocrisy (and resulting cowardice) that should be criticised...not the perceived threat of fascism...
Members of Europe's political elites from Belgium's staunch Atlanticists to Poland's communist reformers were recipients of such grants...watch American influence in Europe melt like snow in the sun...
March 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Members of Europe's political elites from Belgium's staunch Atlanticists to Poland's communist reformers were recipients of such grants...watch American influence in Europe melt like snow in the sun...
American Turkmenbashi...
February 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
American Turkmenbashi...
Communist Poland...travelling in style...
February 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Communist Poland...travelling in style...
Stalinism needed Terror...Nazism less so...fascism and Nazism were quite accepted by the West until Germany invaded Poland in 1939...
January 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Stalinism needed Terror...Nazism less so...fascism and Nazism were quite accepted by the West until Germany invaded Poland in 1939...
Warsaw, 1960s...Communist Poland was still a staunchly Catholic country...
January 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Warsaw, 1960s...Communist Poland was still a staunchly Catholic country...
when you're going for a specific kind of optics...
January 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
when you're going for a specific kind of optics...
Why are the rich so ugly and do they look so dumb?
January 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Why are the rich so ugly and do they look so dumb?
surrealism in the summer of 1989 at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea...only a few weeks after the first semi-free elections in Poland and the crackdown on students in Tiananmen, Polish students joined protests in solidarity with their Chinese peers...
November 15, 2024 at 10:11 PM
surrealism in the summer of 1989 at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea...only a few weeks after the first semi-free elections in Poland and the crackdown on students in Tiananmen, Polish students joined protests in solidarity with their Chinese peers...
One year after PiS's ouster...some thoughts on the situation in "post-PiS" Poland where "with liberals who are not prepared to uphold the values of liberal democracy one doesn’t even need illiberals to end up with illiberal policies."...
www.euronews.com/2024/11/01/i...
www.euronews.com/2024/11/01/i...
November 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
One year after PiS's ouster...some thoughts on the situation in "post-PiS" Poland where "with liberals who are not prepared to uphold the values of liberal democracy one doesn’t even need illiberals to end up with illiberal policies."...
www.euronews.com/2024/11/01/i...
www.euronews.com/2024/11/01/i...
this is what happens when the Humanities and Social Sciences get defunded...
October 13, 2024 at 5:39 PM
this is what happens when the Humanities and Social Sciences get defunded...