THE JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY V.4 No.4
On the Reasons for the Negative Attitude of the Soviet Security Agencies towards the Home Army
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The article analyzes the publication of the Polish historian Dariusz Rogut “The Attitude of Soviet Security Organs to the Home Army (July 1944 – January 1945).” The reasons for
the problems in the relationship between the Soviet State Security Organs and the underground Polish military organization “Home Army” in the final period of the Second World War are seen in the complex relationship between the Soviet leadership in Moscow and the Polish government in London.
the problems in the relationship between the Soviet State Security Organs and the underground Polish military organization “Home Army” in the final period of the Second World War are seen in the complex relationship between the Soviet leadership in Moscow and the Polish government in London.
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A.F. Noskova, ed., NKVD i pol'skoe podpol'e, 1944–1945 (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)
Sharek, Ya. “Iz khroniki kommunizma: Bunt katorzhnika K-677” [From the chronicle of communism: Riot of convict K-677], literary record of conversations with Józef Halski, translated
from Polish by V. Birger. In Noril'skaya golgofa [Norilsk Golgotha], compiled by O.L. Podborskaya, 138–49. Krasnoyarsk: [n.p.], 2002. (In Russian)
Keywords:
Second World War, Soviet-Polish relations, Home Army, Soviet State Security Organs
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Kovalev, B. “On the Reasons for the Negative Attitude of the Soviet Security
Agencies towards the Home Army.” Historia Provinciae – The Journal of Regional History, vol. 4, no. 4 (2020): 1360–76, http://doi.org/10.23859/2587-8344-2020-4-4-8
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