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From the Editors: I The 2023 Michael Henry Heim Prize in Collegial Translation is awarded to Christina Manetti for translating "Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon" by Andrzej Paczkowski i . I The very title of Andrzej Paczkowski's essay "Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon" perfectly illustrates the challenges its translator had to overcome. From the Translator: When Professor Paczkowski asked me to translate his long text on lustration, I didn't hesitate for a moment: having translated one of his books and other articles before, I knew that both the text and the author would be a pleasure to work with. [Extracted from the article]

This symposium offers EEPS audience insights to the process of peer review to which manuscripts submitted to the journal are subjected. It is composed of the original paper (titled "Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968"), reviews and additional comments by the three reviewers, and the author's response. It illustrates the variety of criteria typically used by reviewers – and editors – in their assessment of submitted research papers and essays, as well as the options available to their authors in response. The symposium is also a contribution to the ongoing debates on the topic of the manuscript in question: the legacies of the tumultuous year 1968 and the contributions of the generation defined by those events to the intellectual, political, and other dimensions of public affairs in the East and the West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neither in her cover letter, nor at any time during the long and laborious process of preparing this symposium for publication, did Nina Witoszek inform us of the previous publication of her paper. As we explain below in our editorial introduction, the idea behind the symposium printed in this issue was to give our authors, reviewers, and readers an insight into the peer review process. In our manuscript guidelines for authors, we state unequivocally: "We (...) discourage more than a minimal amount of "text recycling", the reproduction of an author's own text from a previous publication. [Extracted from the article]