Białoruski i rosyjski ruch antysowiecki na Litwie Środkowej w świetle materiałów policji z lat 1921-1922

Abstract

The article, by Joanna Januszewska-Jurkiewicz, treats already of the 20th c. It takes the reader to the North East of the Polish Second Republic. After the end of the Polish-Soviet war and the delimitation of Poland’s eastern border by the treaty of Riga, the Russian and Ukrainian monarchists, inhabiting the borderland near the city of Vilno, did not cease to strive for political changes and for a revision of state borders. The article is based on the Vilno Archive, and the so called police sources, and it shows the backstage of Poland’s secret service becoming interested in these developments. While the Polish side favoured them on the sly, it could not support them officially, for a provocation, such as the invasion of the independent part of Lithuania with the capital in Kovno, could end up in Poland’s compromising herself. This is why a group of former officers, connected with Joseph Balachowicz, a brother of Stanislaus Bulak-Balachowicz. The article shows also the complications of the „Byelorussian cause” after the First World War.