Grzegorz Motyka (born 1967) is a Polish

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and author specializing in the history of

Poland–Ukraine relations Poland–Ukraine relations revived on an international basis soon after Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Various controversies from the shared history of the two countries' peoples occasionally resurface in Polish–U ...

. Since 1992 he served at the Institute of Political Studies of the

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and at the

Institute of National Remembrance The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation ( pl, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state resea ...

. Motyka graduated from the history department at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in 1992. Motyka was awarded the postgraduate academic degree of

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in 1998. The title of his dissertation was ''Walki polsko-ukraińskie na ziemiach dzisiejszej Polski w latach 1943–1948'' (''the Polish-Ukrainian war on the territory of present day Poland in 1943–48''). Motyka habilitated his degree in 2007. After 1992 he became a researcher in the

. He also worked at the Public Education Office of the

(until 2007). He worked as adjunct at the Faculty of Ukrainian Studies in the Jagiellonian University, but also as Associate professor of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities. In 2011 he was selected by the

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– the upper house of the Polish parliament – to the Board of Directors of IPN. In 2017 he received the title of professor.

Selected works

* ''Pany i rezuny. Współpraca AK-WiN i UPA 1945–1947'', Warszawa 1997 (with Rafał Wnuk) * ''Tak było w Bieszczadach. Walki polsko-ukraińskie w Polsce 1943–1948'', Warszawa 1998 * ''Antypolska Akcja OUN-UPA 1943–1944. Fakty i interpretacje'', ed. Grzegorz Motyka, Dariusz Libionka, IPN 2002 * ''Służby Bezpieczeństwa Polski i Czechosłowacji wobec Ukraińców 1945–1989'', Warszawa 2005 (ed. and coauthor) * ''Ukraińska partyzantka 1942–1960'', Warszawa 2006 * ''"W kręgu "Łun w Bieszczadach"'', Warszawa 2009 * ''Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji "Wisła". Konflikt polsko-ukraiński 1943–1947''

Wydawnictwo Literackie Wydawnictwo Literackie (abbreviated WL, lit. "Literary Press") is a Kraków-based Polish publishing house, which has been referred to as one of Poland's "most respected". Company history Since its foundation in 1953, Wydawnictwo Literackie has ...

, 2011. . * ''Na Białych Polaków obława. Wojska NKWD w walce z polskim podziemiem 1944–1953'',

, Kraków 2014, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Motyka, Grzegorz 1967 births Living people 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Jagiellonian University faculty People associated with the Institute of National Remembrance John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni 21st-century Polish historians