Paramilitarne struktury i działalność spiskowo-bojowa Polskiej Partii Socjalistycznej 1918–1928
Paramilitary structures, conspiratorial and fighting activities of the Polish Socialist Party (1918–1928)
Author(s): Jarosław Tomasiewicz, Piotr GrudkaSubject(s): Government/Political systems, Military policy, Studies in violence and power, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: political violence; socialist movement; militia; conspiracy; Second Republic of Poland;
Summary/Abstract: The Polish Socialist Party (PPS) had a long and strong tradition of paramilitary activity since 1904. Socialist armed formations – the Fighting Emergency Squad and the Peoples’Militia – were very active during the struggle for Independence and – afterwards – frontiers of the Second Republic of Poland 1917–21. In later period militia of the PPS fough tboth against rightists (especially in Józef Piłsudski’s coup d’état in 1926) and communists.The Warsaw branch of militia gradually became independent from the Party’s leadership and engaged in criminal activity. Finally militiamen split up and created so-called Former Revolutionary Fraction of PPS in 1928.
Journal: Bezpieczeństwo. Teoria i Praktyka
- Issue Year: XXVII/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 91-110
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish