[1] The journal created the column "On the Front of Historical Science", which published the decisions of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union on historical education, as well as reports on meetings of employees of research institutes and teachers of universities in the country, where these decisions discussed.

[10] After the transition of the journal to the jurisdiction of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, due to internal changes in the latter, difficulties arose in interaction between the editorial board and the directorate.

In 1938, the executive secretary of the magazine, Boris Rubtsov, wrote that "only a very narrow group of authors was interested in the work of the Marxist Historian".

[K 2] Nevertheless, in 1940, at a session of the Department of History and Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, in the report for 1939, it was noted that the journal took one of the first places in production.

The works of Yevgeny Kosminsky about the English Village of the 13th century, Fyodor Potemkin about the Lyons Uprisings and Boris Grekov about Kievan Rus were reviewed.

Thus, at the suggestion of the staff of the sector of the history of the Middle Ages, the magazine published reviews of "Chronological Extracts" by Karl Marx.

[14] Since the mid–1930s, the first studies on the history of the Middle Ages, the Ancient World began to appear, issues of ethnography, archaeology, auxiliary historical disciplines were covered.

In the second half of the 1930s, the works of Soviet scientists on the topic of feudalism, the social system of Kievan Rus, peasant uprisings, and the socio–economic relations of the Russian State were widely reviewed.

[17] Among the works of foreign authors, publications on the history of Western European revolutions of the 19th century, international relations, issues of methodology and historiography were reviewed.

Along with this, the works of "progressive authors" who wrote on the topic of international relations and the place of the Soviet Union in ensuring peace and security were reviewed.

The next important step of the reviewer should have been the archaeographic processing of the source, where the necessary components were to be "compliance with the original, preservation of spelling, accurate translation from a foreign language".

6), called the magazine a propagandist and herald of the revolutionary science of the past, also a military weapon and the concentration of its rapidly gaining experience, as well as its tribune and chair in one person.

[3] Historian Alevtina Alatortseva notes that...[23] The content of the first issues of the journal, its authorship ensured the success of the entire publication.

Rigorous thematic selection, original character of research, their high scientific level, relevance were put into the principles of work of the editorial board of the journal.

The study of the leading problems of Soviet historiography went on in the journal in terms of historiographic and methodological, in a constant struggle against bourgeois and petty–bourgeois, Trotskyist–Menshevik concepts for the approval of the Marxist–Leninist understanding of the most important events of the world historical process.