Remarks about the activity of Polish communists in Soviet Russia 1918-1922

Abstract

There were a few thousand Polish communists in Soviet Russia in the first years after the October Revolution. The Polish Bureau of Agitation and Propaganda at the Russian Communist Party [Bolsheviks] – the so-called Polbiuro – was the most important agenda of Polish communists. This article concerns the position of Polish communists in the Soviet state, their role in the Polish-Bolshevik War, activity amongst the Polish population in post-revolutionary Russia as well as amongst Polish POWs. The article is an attempt to answer the question: how to evaluate the activity of Polish communists in the Soviet country in the first years after the revolution? Text is based mainly on archival material from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow and collections of a few Ukrainian and Polish archives (Donetsk, Warsaw).

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Konrad Zieliński

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  • EP ID EP314844
  • DOI 10.17951/k.2016.23.1.109
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Konrad Zieliński (2016). Remarks about the activity of Polish communists in Soviet Russia 1918-1922. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Sectio K: Politologia, 0(1), 109-120. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-314844