Przemyslaw Witkowski

Pro-Russian Organizations in Poland after 1986 (eBook, PDF)

Agents of Chaos

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how, for 35 years, Russia has been supporting its agents of influence and allies in a seemingly highly hostile society - Poland. Conspiracy narratives, ideological harmony, and old alliances from the period of the Eastern Bloc are primarily the glue that binds the Russian network of influence. In-depth journalistic investigations, spy trials, and embarrassing email leaks - here, you can find many answers to how Moscow works when it wants to influence the political situation in third countries, in this case, Poland. The Polish case study of the "pro-Russian camp" shows how the Kremlin operates in NATO's eastern flank, wanting to increase political polarization, supporting radicalism, and strengthening the message of extremists, from both the right and the left. This book tells us what political circles Moscow's Polish allies come from, their goals, and their beliefs. It also shows their international alliances, outlining the Russian network of influence in the European Union and more broadly. The author also tries to impose on this set of political entities a network of concepts, doctrines, and theories the Moscow center uses to show permanent mechanisms of action. As a result, this book ceases to be just a case study of Poland and becomes a much more helpful study, allowing the use of patterns obtained from many years of research summarized in this publication to understand Russia's influence in other regions. Having examined the reasons for cooperation with Russia - ideological, geopolitical, and historical - in a country as reluctant to form alliances as Poland and understanding the mechanisms of selection and influence on such actors by the Kremlin, we can transfer this knowledge to understand the pattern to other countries. It will be of interest to researchers of Russian and Polish politics, right wing nationalism, and hybrid warfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040557969
• Artikelnr.: 75526184

Autorenporträt

Przemyslaw 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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