THE JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY V.4 No.4
A Historical Study or a Political Accusation? (On the Article by D. Rogut “The Attitude of Soviet Security Organs to the Home Army (July 1944 – January 1945)”)
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the publication “The Attitude of the Soviet Security Organs to the Home Army (July 1944 – January 1945)” written by the Polish historian
Dariusz Rogut. The article refutes the idea of heroization of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) and considers the reasons for the repression of the Soviet security agencies against the AK. The author proposes other interpretations of the most controversial issues raised in the article. He concludes that the article by D. Rogut is a typical example of the a priori approach, which is characteristic of a number of contemporary Polish historians associated with the Institute of National Remembrance who often set political and ideological attitudes above scientific objectivity.
Dariusz Rogut. The article refutes the idea of heroization of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) and considers the reasons for the repression of the Soviet security agencies against the AK. The author proposes other interpretations of the most controversial issues raised in the article. He concludes that the article by D. Rogut is a typical example of the a priori approach, which is characteristic of a number of contemporary Polish historians associated with the Institute of National Remembrance who often set political and ideological attitudes above scientific objectivity.
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‘assisted’ the Red Army in defeating Nazi Germany. 1944–1945: a documentary publication]. Electronic library of the Federal Archival Agency (Rosarkhiv). Accessed May 30, 2020.
(In Russian)
Motyka, G. Ot volynskoi rezni do operatsii ‘Visla’. Pol'sko-ukrainskii konflikt: 1943–1947 [From the Volhynia massacre to Operation Vistula. Polish-Ukrainian conflict: 1943–1947]. Moscow: Politicheskaya entsiklopediya, 2014. (In Russian)
Noskova, A.F., ed. Iz Varshavy. Moskva, tovarishchu Beriya…: dokumenty NKVD SSSR o pol'skom podpol'e 1944–1945 gg. [From Warsaw. To Moscow, comrade Beria...: documents of the NKVD of the USSR on the Polish underground 1944–1945]. Moscow; Novosibirsk: Sibirskii khronograf, 2001. (In Russian)
Noskova, A.F., ed. NKVD i pol'skoe podpol'e. 1944–1945 gg. (po ‘Osobym papkam’ I.V. Stalina): sbornik dokumentov [NKVD and the Polish underground. 1944–1945 (according to
‘Special folders’ of J. Stalin): a collection of documents]. Moscow: Institut slavyanovedeniya i balkanistiki RAN, 1994. (In Russian)
Noskova, A.F. “Stalin i Armiya Kraiova (k formirovaniyu pozitsii sovetskogo rukovodstva)” [Stalin and the Home Army (on the formation of Soviet leadership’s position)], Russian and Slavic Research: a scientific collection, iss. 3, edited by A.P. Sal'kov, O.A. Yanovskii et al., 315–28 Minsk: Beloruskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2008. (In Russian)
Petrov, N.V. Po stsenariyu Stalina: rol' organov NKVD–MGB SSSR v sovetizatsii stran Tsentral'noi i Vostochnoi Evropy. 1945–1953 gg. [According to Stalin’s scenario: the role of the
USSR NKVD–MGB organs in Sovietization of Central and Eastern European countries. 1945–1953]. Moscow: ROSSPEN; Fond ‘Prezidentskii tsentr B.N. El'tsina’, 2011. (In Russian)
Russkii arkhiv: Velikaya Otechestvennaya [Russian archive: Great Patriotic War]. Vol. 14 (3–1), SSSR i Pol'sha [USSR and Poland]. Moscow: TERRA, 1994. (In Russian)
Torkunov, A.V., and A.D. Rotfel'd, eds. Belye pyatna – chernye pyatna: Slozhnye voprosy v rossiisko-pol'skikh otnosheniyakh: nauchnoe izdanie [White spots – black spots: Difficult issues in Russian-Polish relations: academic publication]. Moscow: Aspekt Press, 2010. (In Russian)
Yakovleva, E.V. Pol'sha protiv SSSR. 1939–1950 gg. [Poland versus the USSR. 1939–1950].Moscow: Veche, 2007. (In Russian)
Keywords:
the Second World War, Soviet-Polish relations, the Home Army, Soviet state
security agencies
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Egorov, А. “A Historical Study or a Political Accusation? (On the Article by
D. Rogut “The Attitude of Soviet Security Organs to the Home Army (July 1944 – January 1945)”). Historia Provinciae – The Journal of Regional History, vol. 4, no. 4 (2020): 1377–99, http://doi.org/10.23859/2587-8344-2020-4-4-9
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