User:Piotrus

Or sample my own work. The below lists shows projects I have worked an and:

bold - are extremly interesting

italic - need work and expantion

red - need creation

Note: Once I used to list all articles I worked on here. Then I left just those I created. Now that both are in hudreds, the below list is just for small sample of 'most interesting' articles I worked on.

• History
  • 20th century
    • People
      • Edward Rydz-Smigly - Polish general, Commander-in-Chief during the '39 campaign. A tragic figure.
      • Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski - Polish economist and minister. A forgotten economic genius, if you ask me.
      • Józef Piłsudski - Polish hero, saviour, dictator. A controversial person, but one of the most famous Poles - at least, in Poland.
      • Stefan Starzyński - economist, mayor of Warsaw in '39. A hero and a matryr, another tragic figure.
      • Stanislaw Kot - a diplomat. A patriot who died exiled from his country....
      • Witold Pilecki - the only person who volunteered to go to Auschwitz (to gather intelligence and creata a resistance). Fought in the Warsaw Uprising. A forgotton hero. And a matryr, killed by the communist puppet government of Poland after the war...
      • Wladyslaw Sikorski - general. Prime Minister of Poland in exile after '39. Died in 42...assasinated? Accident? A hero. One of those people whose actions and death do shape the fate of entire countries
      • Zygmunt Konieczny - a composer.
    • Other
      • Armoured train
      • Blitzkrieg
      • Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy - I live in its legacy...so to speak.
      • Education in Poland - been there, done there.
      • Fort Modlin
      • Polish-Soviet War - the forgotten war that determined the course of our history...
        • Causes of the Polish-Soviet War, Polish-Soviet War of 1919, Polish-Soviet War of 1920, Aftermath of the Polish-Soviet War ...its details...
        • Battle of Warsaw (1920) - ...and the battle that determind the course of the war.
        • Blue Army - an interesting formation of that war
        • Kosciuszko Squadron - another one
      • May Coup - all things considered, I think it was one of those few 'good coups'. Still - a controversial issue.
      • Miedzymorze - pre-IIWW Eastern Europen Union. The federation that never was.
      • 'People's Republic of Poland - one of former Polish states
      • Polish September Campaign (aka Polish Defence War of 1939) - the begining of the Second World War, has suprisingly few urban legends and myths connected with it. No, Polish cavalry never charged tanks, give it a rest, will ya?
        • Opposing forces in the Polish September Campaign who fought who with what
        • Battle of Bzura - one of the most important battles of the war...
      • Warsaw Uprising - we made into the Featured Articles, and [brag warning] I said first that we should try this :) [/brag warning] - that's right, he said this first :D [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]]
      • Polish contribution to World War II - so you don't believe Poland was the Second Ally? Check this out.
      • Second Polish Republic - another former Polish state
        • No. 303 "Kosciuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron - 5% pilots who scored 15% kills during the Battle of Britain, even though they entered fight few weeks after it begun.
        • Zygmunt Berling - the traitor? Or the patriot who did what he thought was best...?
      • Western betrayal - Not all of the Allies won the Second World War...
  • pre-20th century
    • connected with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and History of Poland (1569-1795) - the forgotten empire
      • People (List of szlachta)
        • Hugo Kołłątaj - voice in the wild...
        • Stanislaw Koniecpolski - one of the best Polish military commanders
        • Marcin Kromer - wrote one of the first books about Poland
        • Albrycht Stanislaw Radziwill - I read his memoires. An interesting person. See for yourself.
        • Wladyslaw IV Waza - the king who failed
        • Zygmunt III Waza - the king who brought the end...
        • Jakub Zadzik - the noble who didn't try
        • Jan Zamoyski - the noble who tried...
        • Kazimierz Siemienowicz - the grandfather of rocketry
        • Jeremi Wiśniowiecki - hero or villain? an interesting person...
        • Janusz Radziwiłł "The Traitor" - nickname sais it all
      • Other
        • Confederatio (Konfederacja) - or how to legally rebel against the king
        • Confederated sejm - and how to plan for this
        • Dymitriads (aka the Polish-Muscovy war 1606-1618) - did you know Poles captured Moscow?
        • Folwark - how to turn peasants into slaves...
        • Henrician Articles- prelude to the second constitution of the world
        • Hetman - rank of the Polish highest commanders
        • Kanclerz - Chancellor office of the PLCommonwealth
        • Liberum veto - or how to paralyse your government by an excess of democraticy and personal rights...
        • May Constitution of Poland' - the second oldest constitution of the world
        • Moldavian Magnate Wars (aka the Polish-Ottoman War 1595-1621) - what szlachta did in their spare time
        • Nihil novi - nothing new without us. Or how the szlachta became more powerful then the kings.
        • Offices in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - one of my pre-Wiki articles, adapted for Wiki. Also a begining of the study of political systems of the PLCommonwealth series;
        • Pacta conventa - prelude to May Constitution, part 2
        • Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 - second oldest constitution in the world
        • Pospolite ruszenie - Polish levee en masse
        • Rokosz - legal rebelion part 2
          • Rokosz of Zebrzydowski - perhaps the most famous rokosz of them all
        • Sejm elekcyjny (Election Sejm, Coronation Sejm, Election Diet, Coronation Diet) - noble's democracy in practice
        • Sejm Wielki/Sejm Czteroletni (Great Sejm, Great Diet, Four Years Sejm, Four Years Diet) - famous Sejm
        • Sejm Niemy (Silent Sejm, Silent Diet) - yet another one
        • Sejmik - local Sejm
        • Targowica confederation - alliance of the wicked
        • Treaty of Hadiach - what might have been the begining of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth...
        • wojsko kwarciane - the army that wasn't, really
        • Szlachta - Polish nobility. The proud, the amazing, the wicked...
    • Other
      • Axumite Kingdom - my favourite ancient empire
      • Belisarius - my favourite ancient general
      • Isabella Clara Eugenia - a forgotten reformer. Spanish, not Polish :)
• Sociology/political sciences/economy
  • Good (economics) - the good stuff :)
    • Public good - the free stuff
    • Private good - not so free
    • Club good - kind of in between
    • Common good - and more so
    • Collective good - eh, just read it for yourself
  • forms of activity and interpersonal relations and related subarticles
  • People
    • Alfred Weber - brother of a genius
    • Arend Lijphart - a researcher of democracy
    • James M. Buchanan - a researcher of voting
      • The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy - and hos work
    • Josef Kornai - inventor of the...
      • Shortage economy - also known as socialism or capitalism. Been there, seen there, glad to be rid of it. If one thinks communism works as an economy system, this is an interesting counterargument.
    • Max Weber - the inventor of term 'bureaucracy'. And lots of other interesting stuff.
      • Ancient Judaism
      • Sociology of Religion (book by Maximilian Weber)
      • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - his key work
      • The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism
      • The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Budhism
      • The Three Types of Legitimate Rule
      • Bureaucracy
      • Sociology - likely my PhD area
      • Antinaturalism, Antipositivism, Sociological naturalism. Positivism - concepts
      • ideal type - if you are kawaii girl, that's me. Seriously, that's one of Weber's concepts.
      • Social movement
      • Status class
      • 'tripartite classification of authority
        • Rational-legal authority
        • Traditional authority
        • Charismatic authority
    • Norman Davies - one of the best researchers of Polish history. British.
    • Alvin Toffler - a genius
      • Future Shock - and one of his works
  • economic system - please don't confuse with political system
    • List of economic systems
  • political system - ditto reverse
    • List of forms of government
    • History of democracy - another field of my PhD
    • communication-related concepts
      • Drum (communication) - ta-dam!
      • Heliograph - not in the eyes, please!
      • The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (book by Marshall McLuhan) - I want to read this! Anybody can get me a copy of this??
    • Technological singularity - the future. Nuff said.
• Sf
  • 1632 series - amazing, a fictional universe that influenced more serious research then many academic articles or books...
  • Gaunt's Ghosts - good stuff
  • Honor Harrington - even better stuff
  • John Ringo
  • Legend of the Galactic Heroes - more good stuff
  • Mech - big, shiny and rather difficult to park