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Pro-Russian Organizations in Poland after 1986 Agents of Chaos
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 Przemyśl 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
Biography
Przemysław 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.
