Instytut Pamięci Narodowej About the Journal -

Illustration: Wojciech Domińczak

Since 2023 the main internet profile of the periodical, contaning general information, repository of articles, and entry point for authors and reviewers is placed on website czasopisma.ipn.gov.pl, the main internet portal of the Institute of National Remembrance academic periodicals.

The Institute of National Remembrance Review (INRR) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN).

The INRR focuses on the recent history of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and these nations’ experiences of dictatorship and war, as well as the similarities and differences between the mechanisms of dictatorial rule in CEE prior to 1990, described from multiple points of view. Our main aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the CEE countries’ histories, to explain the background of their modern features, and to counter the stereotypes and misjudgements arising from distorted historical messages. Although mainly historical, the periodical encourages an interdisciplinary approach to the themes discussed. The forthcoming issues of the periodical will be prepared as thematic volumes, concerning sets of topics focused on specific phenomena or events.

The INRR is included in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS).

The INRR is enclosed in the list of academic periodicals published by Polish Ministry of Education and Science (identifier 501842) within the research branch 'History'. The number of research evaluation points allocated to the single publication in the INRR is 40.

We wish to acquire papers of intrinsic factual depth: newly-written as much as possible, or at least not previously published in English. The other part of the periodical will consist of presentations of remembrance institutions and overviews of recent historical publications edited in CEE native languages (and therefore not available to English speakers).

The INRR publishes its papers in English.

The general guidelines, required declarations and information on the peer review policy are available in the ‘Guidelines for the Authors’ section.

The periodical does not charge authors with any fee.

The potential authors should contact the Editorial Board via email inrr@ipn.gov.pl .

Academic Board

• Arūnas Bubnys PhD (Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania, bio on the genocid.lt website)
• Gergő Cseh-Bendegúz PhD (Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security in Budapest, Hungary, abtl.hu)
• Professor Ihor Il'yushin (National Academy of Culture and Arts Management in Kyiv, Ukraine, bio on the Chair of the Culture Research and Intercultural Communication website)
• Professor Wanda Jarząbek (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, ORCID)
• Professor Ēriks Jēkabsons (University of Latvia in Riga, ORCID)
• Professor Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University Bloomington, USA, IU Faculty information)
• Professor Vladimer Luarsabishvili (New Vision University in Tbilisi, Georgia, ORCID)
• Meelis Maripuu PhD (The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory in Tallinn, Estonia, Estonian Research Information System)
• Professor Włodzimierz Suleja (Wrocław University, Poland, ORCID)
• Mateusz Szpytma PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland, bio on the IPN website)
• Professor Mirosław Szumiło (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland, ORCID)
• Pavel Žáček PhD (independent, Member of Parliament of the Czech Republic)

Declaration concerning the original version of the "Institute of National Remembrance Review”.

The "Institute of National Remembrance Review” editorial board states that the original (reference) version of the journal is its printed edition (ISSN 2658-1566)

Open access policy

The copyright for the contents of the periodical belongs to the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of the Crimes against the Polish Nation.

The papers are published online in the open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 

The electronic versions of the papers are published online when the relevant files are available, however not earlier than completion of the issue contents.

Repository policy

The periodical’s Editorial Board stores the manuscripts submitted and processed in its own documentation repository accessible for the editorial aims and for editorial team only.

The published papers are stored as separate records on periodical’s profile on the czasopisma.ipn.gov.pl portal and in the cooperating repositories (Biblioteka Nauki / Library of Sciences, Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), the issues up to 2022 are stored on this website in 'Issues' section.

The editorial board allows authors to use of the final published version of a paper (PDF) for self-archiving (author's personal website, academic website or on profiles in the academic platforms like Academia or Research Gate) and/or archiving in an institutional repository (on a non-profit server). The bibliographical description, link to the publisher’s website or DOI identifier must be included in the description of the paper.