Stalin and the Lubianka

Shearer, David R.; Khaustov, Vladimir

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“…109 Further cleansing operations of the western borders soon followed in March 1933, supposedly revealing counterrevolutionary groups organised by the Polish and Finnish general staffs and operating in strategic positions, such as railroad junctions and defence installations. 110 In July 1933, Balitskii again reported to Stalin on the subversive operations against the POV in Ukraine, the central organisation in these supposed conspiracies, showing the long-lasting imprint of this perceived subversive threat. 111 Indeed, operations against the POV would continue into 1934.…”

Section: The Piłsudski Coup D'étatmentioning

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In the shadow of the war: Bolshevik perceptions of Polish subversive and military threats to the Soviet Union, 1920–32

Whitewood

2019

Journal of Strategic Studies

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This article examines Soviet perceptions of subversive and military threats from Poland to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Drawing on archival materials from the Soviet foreign ministry, Communist Party leadership and security organs, it shows how the Soviet leadership held exaggerated fears about Polish threats to the Soviet western border regions and military intervention. A pattern of misperception stemmed from the Bolshevik defeat to Poland in the 1919-1920 Soviet-Polish War, which rather than moderating the early Soviet regime ultimately encouraged more widespread use of state violence and provided further rationale for Stalin's 'Revolution from Above'.

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Section: The Piłsudski Coup D'étatmentioning

confidence: 99%