Autorentext

Przemys aw Witkowski is an assistant professor at Collegium Civitas. He is the author of the monographs Laboratory of Violence: The Political History of the Roma (2020) and Needle and Chipping. Political Dimension of the Movements Opposing Mandatory Vaccinations and Fifth-Generation Telephone Networks (2024). He is the deputy director of the Institute of Political Thought.

Klappentext

This book shows how, for thirty years, Russia has been supporting its agents of influence and allies in a seemingly highly hostile society - Poland.

Inhalt

Introduction. "Near Abroad" - mechanics of the activities of the Russian Federation's secret services in Eastern European countries with particular emphasis on the example of Poland 1. "Kremlins orphans" - the history of the activities of the Polish pro-Russian milieu from the second half of the 1980s to Poland's accession to the European Union (2004) 2. "Quiet, honest people with a small camera". Pro-Russian national communist milieu in Poland 3. "Slavic Unity and Revolutionary Myths". Self-Defense and the Change - main Polish pro-Russian organizations referring to national communism, national Bolshevism, pan-Slavism, neo-paganism, and revolutionary nationalism 4. "The Camp of Great Russia". Activity of the Camp of Great Poland group in anti-Ukrainian activities 5. Changes after The Change. New parties, organizations, and groups created on the fall of The Change party (after 2016) 6. "His Excellency Vladimir Putin". Pro-Russian ultraconservative liberals in Poland 7. "Secret services, mafias, lodges" - Polish pro-Russian Catholic traditionalists in Poland 8. How the Conflict Was Built. Building Polish-Ukrainian tensions in the Przemy l region in 1989-2022 and the relationship of the groups initiating them with Russia 9. Volhynia Remembered. Borderlands-oriented organizations and their activity in increasing ethnic tensions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania 10. "Project Mayhem". Polish pro-Russian non-governmental organizations and protest movements after 2004 Conclusions