Motives for the New Constitution

“Poles of the World Unite”: The Transnational History of the 1929 World Congress of Poles Abroad in the Context of Interwar Soviet–Polish Rivalries

“…Further, the article’s focus on the information campaign and public discussion surrounding the election process to the 1929 World Congress of Poles Abroad contributes to the debates on mass political culture in the interwar Soviet Union. Recent studies on popular participation and political culture during the Union’s formative decades has emphasized the bilateral nature of the discussion (Getty 1991; Siegelbaum and Sokolov 2000; Lomb 2018; Velikanova 2018). The Soviet state took a deep interest in what people were saying.…”