Introduction to History is a book written by the late Jerzy Topolski. The Author analyses two main problems that form the central theme of the book, namely the question of nature of the language and the question of historical truth. Examining these two problems, Topolski argues that the historical narratives have to be viewed as historian's constructions. It seems, however, that the author of the book does not answer the question: why should one carry on historical research if its results have only the same epistemological status as fictional literary texts.

In this review I analyse a book titled Introduction to Historical Psychology written by Maciej Dymkowski. The book is an attempt to work out foundations of a new discipline combining psychology and history. M. Dymkowski convincingly argues that historians should more often use psychological models in their explanations of different historical phenomena. He argues that especially cognitive social psychology can help to understand mechanisms and processes which govern human behaviour. I agree that it is necessary to include in historical explanations psychologically patterned ways of perceiving, classification, deforming of social reality.