Obecność nauk politycznych na łamach „Przeglądu Zachodniopomorskiego” w latach 1963–2012
Political sciences in the "West-Pomeranian Journal" in the years 1963–2012

Summary/Abstract: After having analysed almost 50 annual bound volumes of the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ (Przegląd Zachodniopomorski), undoubtedly the most important academic journal of Western Pomerania, it is justifi ed to claim that problems of political science were always present in its pages. Yet it is necessary to emphasise that the group of political scientists from the Szczecin centre was not numerous before the end of the 1980s, and a signifcant part of them had come from the historians’ milieu. What makes things more diffi cult for the researcher are the circumstances of the epoch that was closed by the 1989 turning point. The natural restrictions of the regime had been reflected in the choice of problems, and – also – in the value of the texts published. On the other hand, in the new situation there appeared an enormous number of subjects that must be analysed again or for the fi rst time. In the research results that have been published, both regional and nation-wide, we can find many interdisciplinary texts from the sphere of sociology, history and political science. The thorough analysis of the contents of the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ within the space of the last 50 years supports the conclusion that political science has been present in almost all its issues. It would be difficult to form a general opinion on the value of those materials. However, it is true that before 1989, in spite of the fact that there were a lot of restrictions resulting from the existing regime, many articles then published avoided a primitive propaganda. Naturally, there were texts dominated by ideology. But after 1989 the texts have become typical of political science research, i.e. concerning political parties and systems and international relations.

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