About the Journal

Aims and thematic scope

The political-legal, socio-economic, and linguistic-cultural transformations taking place in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, despite Poland's accession to the European Union, continue to attract the interest of Polish public opinion, academic and student communities, politicians, and local government representatives. These transformations are characterized by significant dynamism and have an impact on the activities of Polish state and local government institutions, business structures, and non-governmental organizations.

Eastern Review is a scholarly journal whose main goal is to integrate the research efforts of scholars from the Univeristy of Łódź focusing on Eastern European issues and to popularize the results of their research. The thematic scope of the journal includes issues related to the countries of the Eastern European region, understood in geopolitical and socio-cultural rather than strictly geographical terms. The focus is on countries such as Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, as well as other states of the post-Soviet area.

The journal addresses a wide range of topics, including political-legal, socio-economic, and linguistic-cultural issues. The articles published encompass studies in political science, law, sociology, economics, and cultural studies, making Eastern Review a forum for interdysciplinary exchange of knowledge and scientific experiences.

The journal has an international character, with contributions and collaboration from institutions such as Belarusian State University in Minsk (Belarus), Khmelnytskyi National University (Ukraine), Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Ukraine), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), Tula State University (Russia), Uniersity of Economics and Administration im Prague (Czech Republic), Linnaeus University in Växjö (Sweden), Center for Eastern European Studies in Giessen (Germany), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany). This allows readers access to unique, high-quality information, data, opinions, and commentary form authors representing the countries of interest to the journal.

 

Historical background of the Journal

Eastern Review is a journal with a long-standing tradition, edited by the International Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Lodz in cooperation with the Commission for Research on European Integration of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz Branch. The journal directly continues the publication of the same name, which was issued between 1997 and 2001 under the initiative of prof. Jerzy Kmieciński, its founder and long-time editor-in-cheif.

In the 1990s, Eastern Review was published as part of the activities of the Center for Research and Studies on the East at the University of Lodz. Today, the International Center for Eastern European Studies continues the mission of the Center, integrating researchers from the University of Lodz around studies on Eastern European issues and undertaking efforts to develop interdyscyplinary collaboration in this field.

 

Journals scoring by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 40 (January 2024)