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Black and white cover photo with the title 'DANCE IN CHAINS' and a subtitle 'POLITICAL IMPRISONMENT IN THE MODERN WORLD' by Padraic Kenney, featuring prisoners sitting on the ground behind barbed wire.

Available Books

Book cover titled "A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989" by Padrac Kenney, featuring a textured background with multiple silhouettes of people holding flags and banners, arranged in a pattern.
Book cover titled "Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists 1945-1950" by Padraic Kenney features a black-and-white photograph of workers and communists during the reconstruction period in Poland, with some shaking hands amid a rubble-strewn street.
Book cover titled "The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989" by Padraic Kenney, featuring a group of people, including a uniformed officer, at an airport or border crossing with a map background.

Rebuilding Poland
Workers and Communists, 1945–1950

The Burdens of Freedom
Eastern Europe since 1989

A Carnival of Revolution:
Central Europe 1989

Dance in Chains
Political Imprisonment in the Modern World

Protester holding a megaphone and wearing a sign that says 'WE SHALL OVERCOME' during a demonstration, with a crowd in the background, and book cover for '1989 Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End' by Padraic Kenney.

1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End:
A Brief History with Documents

Selected Articles

  • Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35

    East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 2024.

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  • Missing Pictures? Towards an Alternative Visual History of 1989

    Public History Weekly, 2021.

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  • “I felt a kind of pleasure in seeing them treat us brutally.” The Emergence of the Political Prisoner, 1865–1910

    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2012.

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  • Borders Breached: The Transnational in Eastern Europe since Solidarity

    Journal of Modern European History, 2010.

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  • Martyrs and Neighbors: Sources of Reconciliation in Central Europe.

    Common Knowledge, 2007.

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  • After the Blank Spots Are Filled: Recent Perspectives on Modern Poland

    Journal of Modern History, 2007.

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  • Framing, Political Opportunities, and Civic Mobilization in The Eastern European Revolutions: A Case Study of Poland's Freedom and Peace Movement

    Mobilization: An International Journal, 2001.

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  • The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland

    The American Historical Review, 1999. Winner of the Heldt Prize for best article in Slavic women’s studies, 1999, by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies.

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