Elżbieta Trela-Mazur

Elżbieta Trela-Mazur (born 1947) is a Polish historian, author, Doctor of Humanities in contemporary history, and Professor in the Department of International Relations at Opole University, specializing in political history of modern world with emphasis on the history of Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union; totalitarianism, Sovietization of the Eastern Borderlands, Polish diaspora (Polonia) in Europe and elsewhere, as well as Central and Eastern Europe in general.

Professional career In 1973–89 Trela-Mazur worked at the WSP Institute of History (Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna) in Opole, and in 1990–2004 at the Akademia Świętokrzyska in Kielce, as well as in Brussels (1998-2003). Since 2004 she has served at the Opole University Institute of Political Science. Trela-Mazur received her degree of Doctor of Humanities in 1979 for the work Education among Polish children in the Soviet Union in the years 1941-1946; awarded First Prize in Doctoral Thesis for the year 1979 by the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technology. Elżbieta Trela-Mazur, Problemy bezpieczeństwa współczesnego świata (book), 2 editions, 2009, Elżbieta Trela-Mazur, Małopolska Wschodnia po 17 września 1939 roku : sowietyzacja - wybrane zagadnienia (book), 1 edition, 1998,

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