Polska sowietologia i niemieckie Ostforschung. O Instytucie Naukowo-Badawczym Europy Wschodniej w Wilnie i Instytucie Gospodarki Wschodnioeuropejskiej w Królewcu

Polish sovietology and German Ostforschung. About the Eastern European Scientific-Research Institute in Vilno and the Institute of East European Economy in Konigsberg The study is devoted to the origins of Polish sovietology and German “East-European studies” ( Ostforschung ) during inter-war Europe. The author tries to re-examine Polish and German attitudes to sovietology. In the short era of Polish-German detente (1934—1938), the Polish Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy Europy Wschodniej in Wilno (Vilnius) and the German Institut fur Osteuropaische Wirtschaft in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) established some sort of cooperation. This episode requires special attention because it has been neglected in Polish and German historiography.