Broken continuity. The history of „Roczniki Nauk Społecznych” [Annales of Social Studies] in the years 1949-2012

Abstract

POTĘGA TRADYCJI 40. TOM „ROCZNIKÓW NAUK SPOŁECZNYCH”

The author tries to investigate the roots of the journal entitled “Roczniki Nauk Społecznych” [Annales of Social Studies] and describes its history in the years 1949-2012. Within this time-span, 40 volumes of the journal have been published. Three dates are the cornerstones of the author’s reflection: 1948-1949 as the time when the first volume of Annales came out; 1958 and 1975, as the years that witnessed the publication of the second and the third volume, respectively. The adverse political conditions and the austerity that the Communist regime showed towards the Catholic University of Lublin - also towards sociology as a science - caused it that the journal was issued irregularly, with breaks lasting from some years to even decades. It was no sooner than 1975 that the journal had become a regular publication, as it is now.