The aim of the paper is showing the idea of The Commission of National Education as
one of the elements existing in historical narration in the school system after the World
War II. It is not my intention to describe either the changes going in the system of
education in Poland or the changes in the historical education as it is a separate research
problem. The descriptions presented in the paper are not sufficient to exhaust the problem
as it will require extending them with the decision making process influencing a particular
inscription in the course book. It was different in Stalin times and it was dramatically
different at the end of the 20th century. Developing those issues extends the frames of
the paper. Similarly, the same refers to the problem of the origins of course book authors,
publishers‘ policy, etc., which have great influence on the final look of the book
