The Department’s academic staff carry out research on political theory, the political systems, political communication, politician’s image, theoretical basics of civil society and international communication. In addition, the Department's employees implement research projects on the reconstruction of the relationship between institutional governance undemocratic state, it means the totalitarian ambitions of a social reality (the impact of the regime on the behavior of society and the public on the effectiveness of the system). It is particularly important to track the formation and functioning of social movements (for example the opposition youth groups), in fact PRL and other communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Another field of research involves issues of efficiency analysisfor systemic institutions in shaping the mentality of the society and the elimination of political and ideological opponents. Attention is also focused on the release of the institutionof the socialist state responsible for the reproduction of the political system, especially for propaganda and indoctrination. Another scope of the research is the presentation of the major social movements functioning in Poland in the seventies and eighties of the XX century, their aspirations, compared to the PRL reality or the role they played during the socio-political changes in 1989. An interesting issue is to show the fate of the collapse of the communist system and the impact they have had on contemporary attitudes of Poles.