Dr. Chodakiewicz comments on the anniversary of the failed Yanayev palace revolution of August 1991

Publication Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011

The creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States was a tactical move to preempt a similar initiative on the part of Gorbachev. It was also an attempt to counter the model of the USSR's Stalinist leadership under Gorbachev with a post-Stalinist paradigm of collective leadership.  {read more}

Active Measures Gone Awry: Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, 1989-1992

Publication Date: Fall 2011

Between 1989 and 1992, an apparent emancipation of the captive nations occurred within the Soviet Bloc.  That was an unintended consequence of an effort by thte leadership of the Soviet Union to save socialism and their empire.  By attempting to reform, overtly and covertly, the Soviet leaders unleashed indomitable forces of freedom and lacked the stomach to exterminate them physically.  Hence, their empire imploded and they lost power.  One mechanism of change is transformation.    {read more}

IWP Professor addresses problems of property restitution

Publication Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The problem of property restitution in societies once ruled by regimes hostile to the concept of private property rights is a complex one.  {read more}

Average Joe: The Return of Stalin Apologists

An article from the World Affairs Journal

Publication Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011

For more than twenty years now, many thinkers in Russia have been free to reject Communism openly and borrow without fear or hesitancy from the latest Western intellectual fashions. This includes the West's penchant for moral relativism, which has been embraced with particular enthusiasm by Stalin apologists, who have, in the manner of Holocaust deniers, been working feverishly to establish the Man of Steel's innocence, in particular for the mass bloodletting of the Great Terror.  {read more}

Prof. Chodakiewicz discusses Jozef Mackiewicz's writings

Publication Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010

In this article, the Institute's Kosciuszko Professor of Polish Studies, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, gives an introduction to the writings of Jozef Mackiewicz. Dr. Chodakiewicz suggests that Mackiewicz "represents the best traditions of the noble Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth " who "pioneered an ingenious formula to comprehend Marxism-Leninism."  {read more}

Dr. Chodakiewicz comments on Russian "sleepers of influence"

Publication Date: Friday, July 9, 2010

"A sleeper is a secret agent who, after his or her insertion into a foreign nation, blends in perfectly but ceases any and all operations, so as to avoid detection, until she or he is 'woken up' by his supervisors, sometimes many years later, to execute a special assignment."  {read more}

Chodakiewicz comments on Poland's recent tragedy

Publication Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Academic Dean and current holder of The Kościuszko Chair in Polish Studies Marek Chodakiewicz comments on the recent Polish plane tragedy in his paper, "Whose fault?"    {read more}

Chodakiewicz writes about Agent Bolek in the Intelligencer

Publication Date: Monday, January 4, 2010

IWP Professor Marek Chodakiewicz has recently been published in the Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies, a publication of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.  In his article, entitled "Agent Bolek," he explores Lech Walesa's involvement with the Communist secret police.   {read more}

The nature and future of communism

Publication Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

In this essay, IWP Academic Dean and Kosciuszko Professor of Polish Studies Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz briefly presents some of the crucial intellectual foundations of communism, and proceeds to examine its continuing role in world affairs.  {read more}

Genocide prevention by one condottiere

Publication Date: Friday, May 1, 2009

In this essay, published originally in the January/February issue of the magazine Serviam, Dr. Chodakiewciz notes: "Genocide prevention is about neutralizing regimes and groups fostering mass murder through their ideologies and actions. In the West, most conceptualize genocide prevention in terms of education, lobbying, and humanitarian assistance....  Meanwhile, people are dying and even the best "road map" can't stop it fast enough. But I knew someone who did in Congo almost 50 years ago."  {read more}