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The aim of this study is to present the changes to the western border of Poznań/Greater Poland Voivodeship in relation to the transformations of the border with Germany and the successive reforms of Poland's administrative-territorial division during the specified period. The author seeks to demonstrate how the political and social influences shaped this border. The article covers the following topics: - the western border of Poznań Voivodeship from 1919 as a border with Germany, then from 1922 to 1938 with Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen province, which included the Greater Poland counties (Wschowa, Babimost, Międzyrzecz, Skwierzyna, Piła, Złotów, Noteć); - the abolition of the border during the war and occupation years of 1939-1945; - the shift of Poland's western border and the border of Poznań Voivodeship to the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, and the incorporation of the newly created Lubusz Land to Poznań Voivodeship between 1945 and 1950; - the role of Greater Poland in forming the new region and its identity; - the distancing of Poznań Voivodeship from the border with Germany (GDR) following the creation of the Zielona Góra Voivodeship in 1950; - adjustments of the western borders of Poznań Voivodeship, Piła Voivodeship, and Leszno Voivodeship in 1975; - the new border between Greater Poland Voivodeship and Lubusz Voivodeship after 1999. Moving Poznań-Greater Poland Voivodeship away from the border with Germany in 1950 appears to be a permanent solution, although future changes in the country's administrative-territorial division cannot be predicted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The seventieth anniversary of the Institute for Western Affairs is an incentive to reflect on the processes of change which the Institute has gone through. The following topics are discussed: the crises which influenced the functioning of the Institute; the role of outstanding personages who had an impact on the activity of the Institute; continuity and change as two inseparable tendencies that shape the Institute's contemporary research program; multilevel connections between the scholarship developed at the Institute and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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