About the Journal

About us

The Journal was established in 1963. Its first Editor-in-Chief was the professor of the University of Warsaw and the head of the Department of History of European Socialist Countries at the IH PAN, Rafał Gerber. After many years, the Department was transformed into the Department of History of the 19th- and 20th-Century Europe. Currently, it functions as the Section for the History of Eastern Europe and the Empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries within the structures of the Department of the History of the 20th Century. The next Editors-in-Chief were Professors Janusz Żarnowski, Piotr Łossowski, Marek Kazimierz Kamiński, and Andrzej Nowak. Now, the Journal is edited by the editorial team under prof. Daniel Boćkowski; its Editorial Board is made up of the eminent world scholars such as Professors Kimitaka Matsuzato, Timothy Snyder, Eric Jacobson, Darius Staliunas. The member of the Board was also Richard Pipes, who died in 2018.

The first number was published in 1965 under the title of The USSR and Central European History Research. In 1992, the title was changed to Studies into the History of Russia and Central-Eastern Europe.

In previous years, the Studies into the History of Russia and Central-Eastern Europe carried out programmes financed by the ministry responsible for science, aimed at increasing the standard of the Journal and popularise research results, especially in English. Currently, it is a two-year project “Development for Scientific Journals” of the Ministry of Education and Science. In recent years, the Journal has also been covered by the Support for Scientific Journals programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Program for the Development of Humanities.

According to the current list of scientific journals and peer-reviewed materials from international conferences prepared by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, contributions to Studies into the History of Russia and Central-Eastern Europe are awarded 100 points.

 

Focus and Scope

The Journal is devoted to the widely understood history of East and Central Europe, the USSR and Russia in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. We also publish the articles and studies on the relationship of this region with other countries of the world, and on the history of empires. We are also interested in research into the fields of social and cultural sciences, as well as in the articles combining research methods of several disciplines, including these using the most recent achievements in the humanities and social sciences.

Scientific disciplines represented in the Journal cover: history, international relations, art sciences, sciences of culture and religion, security sciences, social communication and media sciences, politics and administration sciences, sociological sciences, film and theatre arts.

 

Editorial Policies

By submitting their text, the authors guarantee that they have written the original scientific work on their own, and all fragments of other authors’ works have been properly cited. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and will be made public by the editors. We expect the typescripts to be the result of original research, unpublished, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All texts submitted for publication in “Studia z dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej” are checked for potential plagiarism using the Antiplagiarism System service provided by Plagiat.pl.

Typescripts with disclosed ghostwriting will be rejected by the editors. Authorship should be limited only to those persons who made a significant contribution either to the conception, or analysis and interpretation of the data. All those who have made a significant contribution should be listed as co-authors.

 

Principles of Peer Review

The peer review process is carried out in accordance with the rules presented in the publication Good Practices in Reviewing Procedures in Science (Dobre praktyki w procedurach recenzyjnych w nauce) published in Warsaw in 2011. 

  • By submitting their text, the authors consent to the review process.
  • Articles are formally assessed by the Editorial Board within 30 days of being received. Approved texts are sent for review. They are always assessed by two external reviewers from the research field consistent with the subject of the study, who are not members of the Journal’s Editorial Staff.
  • The reviewers are selected by the Journal’s Editorial Board.
  • Reviews are in writing. The review template is available on the Journal’s website.
  • In the case of texts written in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers is affiliated with a foreign institution from a country other than the author’s nationality.
  • Articles are not sent to reviewers from the author’s affiliate institution.
  • The Journal uses double-blind review: reviewer doesn’t know the identity of the author, and vice-versa.
  • An article is assigned a code that identifies it at a later stage in the peer-review process. The author is always informed about the results of the review.
  • Reviewers evaluate the text within 60 days.
  • The review containing critical comments and suggestions is sent by the Editor-in-Chief to the author who is obliged to make the required corrections.
  • The author has 30 days to make corrections and submit the final text to the Editors.
  • After corrections, if their scope was significant, the article may be returned to the reviewer for approval.
  • The final decision to publish an article is made by the Editor-in-Chief. An article to be publish has to receive two positive reviews.
  • A polemic between the author and the reviewer is allowed (in the case of critical comments of the reviewer regarding substantive issues).
  • In exceptional cases, where the author does not accept reviewers’ ratings, the article might be withdrawn on its author’s request.
  • The list of reviewers cooperating with the editorial office is published on the Journal’s website.

 

Open Access Policy

Periodyk oferuje dostęp do zawartości w systemie Open Access na zasadach licencji niewyłącznej Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0).

The journal offers access to the contents in the open access system on the principles of non-exclusive license Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.

 

Advisory Committee

  • Iskra Baeva
    (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
  • Tadeusz Epsztein
    (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Jiřî Friedl
    (Univerzita Obrany, Brno, Czech Republic)
  • Yaroslav Hrytsak
    (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
  • Ēriks Jēkabsons
    (Latvijas Universitāte, Latvia)
  • Renata Król-Mazur
    (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
  • Piotr Łossowski
    (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, emeritus)
  • Wojciech Materski
    (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Irina Matiasz
    (Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; The Centre for East European Studies University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • Kimitaka Matsuzato
    (Tokio University, Japan)
  • Andrzej Nowak
    (Jagiellonian University, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
  • Aleksandr Rupasow
    (Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
  • Timothy Snyder
    (Yale University, USA)
  • Darius Staliunas
    (Lithuanian Historical Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Alicja Stępień-Kuczyńska
    (University of Lodz, Polska)
  • Jacek Tebinka
    (University of Gdansk, Poland)

 

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

1) To be accepted for publication, an article must meet the following criteria:

  • Be the result of independent research, not be under consideration elsewhere, nor may they have been published or accepted for publication.
  • Meet fomal criteria and follow relevant guidelines.
  • Receive two positive reviews in accordance with the double-blind review rules.
  • Must comply with the rules of the ‘ghostwriting firewall’. All disclosed cases of ghostwriting (hiding their participation by the authors or writing the text on request) and guest authorship (adding to the list of authors of people whose participation in the creation of the text was negligible) will be made public on the websites of our Journal. The institution employing the author will also be informed about this fact.
  • In justified cases, the Editorial Board may request a declaration of the author’s/authors’ contribution in accordance with the principles of the ghostwriting firewall.
  • Authors may be asked to submit a declaration on the sources of financial means to finance the publication, contribution from research institutions, associations and other entities (financial disclosure).

2) Editors accept electronic texts in the following formats: doc, docx, rtf.

3) The texts of the articles should, in principle, not exceed 50,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes (approx. 30 standard pages), and review texts – 18,000 characters with spaces and footnotes (approx. 10 standard pages). The editors reserve the right to abridge the texts.

4) Texts should not be formatted, e.g. by using different fonts or spacing-outs (bolds should be used instead of spacing-out). Italics may only be used in bibliographic descriptions, for titles of the publications. Only the paragraphs need to be indicated.

5) Articles should be sent in electronic form, as an attachment, by e-mail, to the address sdr@ihpan.edu.pl.

6) The authors are notified by e-mail about the acceptance of their article for publication.

7) If there is a need to correct or supplement the submitted text in accordance with the reviewers’ suggestions, the author has 21 days starting from the date of sending the comments of the reviewer or the editor. Failure to correct the text within the this time means that it will be published in the following issue.

8) Texts for author’s correction are sent in a PDF file. Any comments should be included in the form of an attached errata containing information about noticed errors. The author can also print the file he was sent, make a correction on the paper, and then send it to the editorial office. Revised texts are due by a certain deadline. Texts not received within this time will be published in their original form (with possible errors).

9) The texts of the articles should have the following structure:

  • author’s name and surname (top left);
  • ORCID number (if the author has one);
  • affiliation – in the form required by the employing institution (in other cases, we provide the name of the city);
  • title of the article in Polish and English;
  • outline of the content in Polish (400–700 characters) and in English – a brief overview of the content of the article;
  • keywords in Polish and English – 5–7 words or phrases;
  • the content of the article;
  • bibliography of the publications referred to in the footnotes;
  • abstract in Polish and English (1000–1800 characters) – a short presentation of the content of the article, including the results of the analysis, conclusions drawn from it and a discussion of the methodology used;
  • a short note about the author in Polish (English optional) – 200–400 characters (basic place of work, current position and a valid e-mail address, the author’s research interests).
  • It is compulsory to provide the full address of your primary workplace and a valid e-mail address. This is the data necessary for indexing.

The outline of the content, keywords and abstract may be translated by the Editorial Staff during the preparation of the volume for publication, however, the materials sent by the author must contain all elements in Polish.

10) Structure of review articles, reviews and review notes:

  • Review articles: name and surname of the author (together with the ORCID number and affiliation) and the title of the review article are to be given at the beginning of the text;
  • Reviews: the name and surname of the author (with the ORCID number) should be provided under the text of the review;
  • Review notes are signed with the author’s initials;
  • Above the text of the review or note, the headline should be placed: first name (expanded) and surname of the author of the reviewed work, the italicised full title as on the title page (when the review concerns a collective work or a source edition, after the title, we give the full names and surnames of the editors or publishers; if the work is multi-volume – number of volumes or parts in Arabic numerals, e.g. vols 1–2), place and year of publication, name of publisher, number of pages, or title of a publishing series. In the headings, we use abbreviations in the language of the reviewed work, e.g.: ed., Bearb. von, hrsg. von etc.

11) In memoriam:

  • The structure of the heading: the name and surname of the deceased in capital letters, below, in parentheses, the daily dates of birth and death (with full names of the months);
  • The name and surname of the author (along with the ORCID number) should be provided under the text of the memoir.

More information

 

Revievers

2017
Jakub Wojtkowiak, Michał Gnatowski, Krzysztof Buchowski, Aleksander Srebrakowski, Elżbieta Znamierowska-Rakk, Lilla Moroz-Grzelak, Jacek Tebinka, Jerzy Eisler, Andrzej Nowak, Tadeusz Epsztein, Paweł Libera, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Mariusz Wołos, Grzegorz Mazur, Edward Walewander, Artur Patek, Antoni Mironowicz, Zdzisław Julian Winnicki, Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur, Oleg Łatyszonek, Ewa Cytowska, Renata Zawistowska, Sławomir Sikora, Grażyna Stachówna, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Alicja Stępień-Kuczyńska, Piotr Cichoracki, Krystyna Gomółka, Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, Andrzej Chwalba, Marek Kornat, Włodzimierz Marciniak, Aleksander Srebrakowski, Zbigniew Błaszczyk, Tadeusz Wolsza, Jan Jacek Bruski, Tomasz Stryjek, Aleksander Łaniewski, Jacek Luszniewicz, Wojciech Materski, Andrzej Chodubski, Andrzej Nowak, Marek Kornat, Richard Pipes, Beata Szubtarska, Anna Zapalec, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Jolanta Darczewska, Wojciech Materski, Marcin Kwiecień

2018
Maciej Koźmiński, Piotr Zwierzchowski, Andrzej Friszke, Ryszard Gryz, Konstantin Semenov, Oleg Czistiakow, Włodzimierz Borodziej, Andrzej Chwalba, Aleksander Głogowski, Aleksander Srebrakowski, Eryk Jekabsen, Wanda Krystyna Roman, Witold Molik, Adam Wątor, Przemysław Adamczewski, Stanisław Ciesielski, Jarosław Rubacha, Antoni Marian Cetnarowicz, Ryszard Radzik, Jerzy Eisler, Tadeusz Dmochowski, Andrzej Chwalba, Andrzej Nowosad, Krzysztof Koźbiał, Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, Sergii Gladyshuk, Daniel Boćkowski, Tadeusz Wolsza, Wojciech Materski, Dariusz Jeziorny, Włodzimierz Borodziej, Andrzej Chwalba, Tadeusz Czekalski, Sneżana Dymitrowa, Dariusz Libionka, Alina Skibińska, Oksana Voytuk, Jakub Kościółek, Tomasz Stryjek, Grzegorz Motyka, Tadeusz Dubicki, Agnieszka Małgorzata Kastory, Krzysztof Piotr Pietkiewicz, Agnieszka Pospiszil, Radosław Żurawski vel Grajewski, Marek Rutkowski

2019
Zofia Zielińska, Adam Danilczyk, Zbigniew Eugeniusz Niebelski, Henryk Głębocki, Tadeusz Epsztein, Leszek Zasztowt, Anna Krwawicz, Piotr Ugniewski, Adam Bosiacki, Piotr Ugniewski, Maria Czeppe, Jacek Wijaczka, Michał Zwierzykowski, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Grzegorz Hryciuk, Tomasz Stryjek, Magdalena Żakowska, Iwona Anna Ndiaye, Maria Pasztor, Jacek Tebinka, Eugeniusz Niebelski, Wiesław Caban, Hubert Łaszkiewicz, Marek Hałaburda, Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur, Oleg Łatyszonek, Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, Jarosław Adam Moklak, Krzysztof Buchowski, Aleksander Srebrakowski, Artur Markowski, Magdalena Kozłowska, Wojciech Kosiedowski, Monika Wojtas, Dariusz Jeziorny, Tomasz Bugaj, Grażyna Świętochowska, Ewa Ciszewska, Waldemar Rezmer, Maria Pasztor, Michał Jerzy Zacharias, Adam Pieczewski, Andrzej Smolarczyk, Zbigniew Siemiątkowski, Janusz Pezda, Piotr Mikietyński, Jacek Chrobaczyński, Roman Wysocki, Grzegorz Motyka

2020
Mirosław Filipowicz, Dariusz Szpoper, Tomasz Ciesielski, Maciej Trąbski, Albin Głowacki, Michał Gnatowski, Anna Jach, Stanisław Gregorowicz, Artur Pasko, Krzysztof Buchowski, Bogdan Góralczyk, Dominik Héjj, Małgorzata Hanna Karpińska, Andrzej Szabaciuk, Jadwiga Teresa Kiwerska, Bogusław Pacek, Mikołaj Chaustowicz, Andrzej Chwalba, Ryszard Radzik, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Zbigniew Ryszard Romek, Bogusław Gogol, Janusz Adamowski, Arkadiusz Żukowski, Zbigniew Mieczysław Libera, Andrzej Jekaterynczuk, Władysław Piotr Wlaźlak, Jan Zbigniew Lewandowski, Rafał Wnuk, Sławomir Poleszak, Oleg Łatyszonek, Katarzyna Duda, Andrzej Edward Chojnowski, Grzegorz Piotr Hryciuk, Urszula Marta Oettingen, Joanna Irena Szymoniczek, Marek Kornat, Andrzej Mania, David Kolbaia, Zaur Gasimov, Ewa Ciszewska, Anna Szczepańska – Dudziak, Krzysztof Buchowski, Piotr Łossowski, Veselin Popov, Antonina Zhelyazkova, Grzegorz Berendt, Ewa Wiatr, Magda Lorena Cárdenas, Jana Javakhishvili, Aleksander Srebrakowski, Leszek Olgierd Zasztowt, Wojciech Niedziela, Rafał Ciesielski

2021
Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Barbara Stoczewska, Witold Stanisław Szulc, Ewa Maria Stasiak-Jazukiewicz, Paweł Wawryszuk, Michał Jerzy Zacharias, Grzegorz Radomski, Adam Sawicki, Tomasz Koziełło, Stanisław Stępka, Piotr Franaszek, Rafał Marcin Matera, Mariusz Korzeniowski, Paweł Olszewski, Leszek Olgierd Zasztowt, Jacek Zieliński, Wiesław Władyka, Mariusz Wołos, Dariusz Miszewski, Jacek Legieć, Wojciech Materski, Przemysław Adamczewski, Witold Stanisław Szulc, Ewa Maria Stasiak-Jazukiewicz, Zbigniew Leszczyński, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, Tadeusz Epsztein, Andrzej Tadeusz Szmyt, Grzegorz Motyka, Mariusz Zajączkowski, Larysa Leszczenko, Anatoliy Kruglashov, Arkadiusz Czwołek, Halina Świeboda, Adriana Katarzyna Dudek, Wanda Jarząbek, Zenon Marian Stachowiak, Cecylia Leszczyńska, Ryszard Michalak, Dariusz Góra, Bożena Płonka-Syroka, Bożena Halina Urbanek, Ēriks Jēkabsons, Antonina Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska, Jacek Knopek, Grzegorz Kucharczyk

2022
Stefan Dudra, Norbert Kasparek, Jacek Legieć, Stanisław Andrzej Wiech, Krzysztof Komacki, Grzegorz Piotrowski, Tadeusz Wolsza, Roman Wysocki, Tadeusz Epsztein, Andrzej Jan Przegaliński, Agnieszka Orzelska-Stączek, Konrad Amadeusz Świder, Piotr Mickiewicz, Marek Pietraś, Mirosław Dymarski, Irena Stawowy-Kawka, Grzegorz Mazur, Tomasz Stryjek, Grzegorz Motyka, Marek Wojnar, Krzysztof Buchowski, Zdzisław Julian Winnicki, Аниперков Вадим, Mikołaj Tarkowski, Czesław Osękowski, Waldemar Żebrowski, Mirosław Dymarski, Konrad Sebastian Morawski, Krzysztof Przybyszewski, Marcin Polakowski, Krzysztof Buchowski, Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur, Bożena Urbanek, Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk, Anna Supruniuk, Włodzimierz Mędrzecki

2023
Andrzej Nowak, Marek Kornat, Krzysztof Buchowski, Tomasz Gajownik, Jarosław Kita, Grzegorz Smyk, Krystyna Romaniszyn, Jerzy Żurko, Jan Faryś, Agnieszka Kastory, Andrzej Stanisław Szwarc, Tadeusz Józef Stegner, Andrzej Gąsiorowski, Mirosław Golon, Ilona Dulisz, Sławomir Wieczorek, Piotr Olender, Maciej Franz, Jerzy Grzybowski, Helena Głogowska, Maria Pasztor, Mariusz Wołos, Małgorzata Przeniosło, Zbigniew Zaporowski, Jarosław Tomasiewicz, Adrian Tyszkiewicz, Mariusz Kulik, Wiesław Caban, Katarzyna Błachowska, Adam Bobryk, Przemysław Matusik, Grzegorz Motyka, Jarosław Moklak, Roman Jurkowski, Leszek Olgierd Zasztowt, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Agnieszka Sawicz, Aleksander Bogolubow, Przemysław Adamczewski, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Marek Rutkowski, Wojciech Konończuk, Marek Melnyk, Ryszard Michalak, Krzysztof Fedorowicz, Jacek Zieliński, Witold Medykowski, Christhardt Henschel, Andrzej Sadowski, Wiesław Banach, Józef M. Fiszer, Arkadiusz Żukowski

2024
Rafał Wordliczek, Halina Parafianowicz, Andrzej Mania, Stefan Dura, Bogdan Horbal, Piotr Chomik, Mirosław Piotrowski, Przemysław Adamczewski, Leszek Olgierd Zasztowt, Jarosław Adam Moklak, Grzegorz Skrukwa, Jędrzej Paszkiewicz, Konrad Sebastian Morawski, Dariusz Matelski, Jerzy Malinowski, Aleksandra Leinwand, Beata Szubtarska, Nikołaj Iwanow, Eugeniusz Mironowicz, Marek Gawęcki, Michał Kuryłowicz, Wanda Jarząbek, Karsten Rudolph, Dariusz Tarasiuk, Piotr Cichoracki, Rafał Jacek Czachor, Małgorzata Ruchniewicz, Katarzyna Duda, Jacek Zaleśny, Maciej Raś, Dariusz Nawrot, Tomasz Gajewski, Agnieszka Warchoł, Mirosław Golon, Jan Szumski, Eugeniusz Niebelski, Lidia Michalska-Bracha, Tomasz Stegner, Grzegorz Piotrowski, Iwona Kurz, Paweł Malendowicz, Grzegorz Radomski, Łukasz Dryblak, Ryszard Radzik, Andrzej Chwalba, Krzysztof Falkowski, Piotr Kwiatkiewicz, Jan Jacek Bruski, Jakub Zajączkowski 

Journal History

The Journal was established in 1963. Its first Editor-in-Chief was the professor of the University of Warsaw and the head of the Department of History of European Socialist Countries at the IH PAN, Rafał Gerber. After many years, the Department was transformed into the Department of History of the 19th- and 20th-Century Europe. Currently, it functions as the Section for the History of Eastern Europe and the Empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries within the structures of the Department of the History of the 20th Century. The next Editors-in-Chief were Professors Janusz Żarnowski, Piotr Łossowski, Marek Kazimierz Kamiński, and Andrzej Nowak. Now, the Journal is edited by the editorial team under prof. Daniel Boćkowski; its Editorial Board is made up of the eminent world scholars such as Professors Kimitaka Matsuzato, Timothy Snyder, Eric Jacobson, Darius Staliunas. The member of the Board was also Richard Pipes, who died in 2018.

The first number was published in 1965 under the title of The USSR and Central European History Research. In 1992, the title was changed to Studies into the History of Russia and Central-Eastern Europe.

In previous years, the Studies into the History of Russia and Central-Eastern Europe carried out programmes financed by the ministry responsible for science, aimed at increasing the standard of the Journal and popularise research results, especially in English. Currently, it is a two-year project “Development for Scientific Journals” of the Ministry of Education and Science. In recent years, the Journal has also been covered by the Support for Scientific Journals programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Program for the Development of Humanities.