Elżbieta M. Mach is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research focuses on the development of educational systems.Grzegorz Pożarlik is Senior Lecturer and at the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of European Studies. His research focuses on the sociology of power, international security in the Post-Cold War era, and the civil society.Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research interests include Nationalism, Fascism, and the Far Right, as well as the memory of totalitarianism and authoritarianism.

• Post-totalitarian Societies in Western Europe Models of Systemic-Economic Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe Reconstruction of the Rule of Law Politics of MemoryShaping Active European Citizenship in Post-totalitarian Societies