In 1970, Finnish historian reviewed the output of the journal from 1956 to volume 24 in 1979 in two articles for the "Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas" (Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe) in which he noted that despite the publication's claims for international collaboration, the majority of the authors were from the Soviet Union, the choice of flags for the cover revealing which countries were counted among the Nordic ones.