Contents: Jan Malicki: Preface; Richard Pipes: Introduction; -- Part I. Russia of the Tsars: -- Antoni Mironowicz: The Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia; Wieslaw Caban & Jacek Legiec: Poles in the Imperial Russian Army in the 19th Century: Numbers and Distribution; Roman Jurkowski: 'I Left Quite a Few Friends There': Piotr Stolypin and Polish Landowners from the Taken Lands Between 1899 and 1911; -- Part II. Russia of the Bolsheviks: -- Wiktoria Sliwowska: Can the Title of Jan Kucharzewski's Work 'From White Tsarism to Red?', Be Regarded as an Interpretation of the History of the USSR?; Andrzej Walicki: Two Depictions of the History of the Russian Revolution and the Communist Experiment in Russia; Leszek Zasztowt: Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Science: An Unbearable Issue of 'Scientific Consciousness'; Mikolaj Iwanow: Jewish Colonization During the First Years of Soviet Power 1924 - 1929; -- Part III. Russia of the New Times: -- Andrzej Nowak: Eastern Europe Under Western Ice: Waiting for a Thaw in 'Western' Historiography; Jan Holzer: Democracy versus Non-Democracy: Historical and Methodological Comments on Theory and Classification of Political Regimes; Mykola Riabchuk: The 'New Eastern Europe' and East Slavonic 'Ummah': Uneasy Emancipation; Wiktor Ross: The Political System of the Russian Federation Under Presidents Putin and Medvedev; Witold Rodkiewicz: Dmitri Medvedev's Proposal for a European Security Treaty: An Interpretation; John S. Micgiel: From Retrenchment to Reset? Reflections on Contemporary Polish-Russian Relations Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.