Kwartalnik historyczay, an organ of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is one of the oldest scientific publications in the Polish People's Republic. This year it celebrates the 90th anniversary of the publication of its first issue. The subject range of the journal's publications is extremely wide, and the journal's author's asset is numerous .1 The overwhelming majority of articles are devoted to the history of Poland, but at the same time from time to time substantial materials are published on the history of the countries of the socialist commonwealth, England, France, less often on the history of the United States2, Italy; there are almost no special articles on the history of Germany, which is probably explained by the presence of such a much attention is paid to the new and recent history of Germany. The proposed review of the journal for the past seven years, of course, cannot claim to be exhaustive. A variety of studies on the history of antiquity and the Middle Ages, including Russian, remain out of consideration, and the journal constantly addresses these issues .3 Below we will discuss only a few materials, mainly on the recent history of Poland and on theoretical problems of historical science. The issue of the journal devoted to the XIII International Congress of Historical Sciences (1970, No. 3) is of great interest. It contains materials on topical issues of the history of the countries of South-Eastern and Central Europe, and most of the articles analyze the events of the XIX and XX centuries. J. Zharnovsky and A. Chubinsky consider the formation and development of the system of European nation-states in the post-October period in their research. Both authors carefully study the reasons for the formation of national states in Central and South-Eastern Europe, and convincingly emphasize the influence of the Great October Socialist Revolution on the development of the national liberation movement of the peoples of European coun ... Read more