W obronie więzionych komunistów. czerwona Pomoc zachodniej Ukrainie: struktura organizacyjna i działalność na Wołyniu i w Galicji Wschodniej w okresie międzywojennym
In Defense of imprisoned Communists. Red Аid of Western Ukraine: Structure and Activities in Volyn and Eastern Galicia in the interwar Period

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this publication is to study the organisation and main currents of the activities of the Red Aid of Western Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s in Volyn and Eastern Galicia. General empirical and strictly historical research methods were employed, including chronological, problem-oriented, and historical comparative methods. The organisation studied was formally subordinate to the Red Aid in Poland (which constituted a division of the International Red Aid) but was de facto dependent on the Communist Party of Western Ukraine (KZPU) ideologically, financially and organisationally. Despite its illegal status and repressions by law enforcement agencies, the organisation effectively carried on charitable activities to help political prisoners from the extreme left and members of their families. Promoting the communist movement, the Red Aid of Western Ukraine destabilised the socio-political situation in the country. It was therefore monitored by various levels of the Polish security forces, which became well acquainted with the structure of the organisation and how it operated.

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