Soviet theme on the pages of the publications of the Institute for scientific-analytical study of Eastern Europe in Wilno, 1930-1939

The Institute for Scientific-Analytical Study of Eastern Europe in Wilno existed from 1930 to 1939. An important part of its activities consisted of publications. The Institute published two periodicals; the „Year Book of the Institute for Scientifi c-Analytical Study of Eastern Europe in Wilno” and the „Balticoslavica” publication, along with various books. A wide variety of important works concerning various aspects of life in the Soviet Union appeared on the pages of these publications. Contemporary Polish Sovietologists hold in great regard the works of Institute scholars Stanislaw Swianiewicz, Boleslaw Cyrulinski and Witold Staniewicz, among others, on economic questions, as well as the studies of Wiktor Sukiennicki and Grzegorz Wirszubski on the legal and government systems of the USSR. In its fi nal years the Institute began to focus more attention on Soviet education and culture. During World War II the Institute was closed, and its research work suspended. However, in a relative short period of time, the scholars associated with the Institute managed to make a signifi cant contribution to the discovery of the political, economic and cultural life of the Soviet Union and neighboring countries