Jan Tomasz Gross is Professor of History at Princeton University (USA). He is the author of the extensively discussed books Neighbors, Fear, and Revolution from Abroad. His research interests are comparative politics, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Soviet and East European politics, and the Holocaust.

• Contents: Totalitarianism – Polish-Jewish relations during the war– Collaboration– Crisis of communism – Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration – Polish-Jewish relations during the war – Jewish Community in the Soviet Annexed Territories on the Eve of the Holocaust – Opportunistic Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors: a Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe? – Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation.