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The paper explores the publishing legacy of the „Reduta” Eastern Institute (Instytut Wschodni), which first functioned under the name Near and Middle Eastern Institute. this was an academic and editorial institution, established in 1946 by Polish refugees during the course of their wartime and post-war wandering. It initially functioned in the Near East, and, at the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s, it moved to Great Britain. It had its permanent headquarters in London. e author discusses magazines and selected books published by „Reduta” in the first phase of its existence up to the early 1950s. He emphasises the significance of the Institute’s publications dedicated to history and to contemporary issues related to countries of the Near and Middle East and Russia. He mentions the role played by „Reduta” in the lives of Poles from the so-called „Independence Emigration” of the rst half of the 20th century, living in Britain.