SOCIALIST-REVOLUTIONARY REBEL UNDERGROUND IN WESTERN BELARUSIN THE EARLY 1920S

Abstract

This study is aimed at identifying the insufficiently studied aspects of the Socialist-Revolutionary factor in the armed struggle
of the Belarusian people against the Polish authorities in the early 1920s related to the organizational, financial and personnel issues of
underground and insurgent activities. The interweaving of various interests of both neighboring states and Belarusian politicians,
especially after the signing of the Riga Peace Treaty on March 18, 1921, according to which Western Belarus became part of the Polish state, greatly complicated the objective understanding of the issue of organization of the Socialist-Revolutionary rebel structures. This issue was not fully disclosed by both domestic and foreign researchers [1—12].

Based on the analysis of literary and archival sources, we can conclude that the Belarusian Socialist-Revolutionaries had a significant impact on the organization of the rebel movement in the territory of Western Belarus in 1921—1923. It was they who determined the policy of the BNR government, which was in Kovno. And only after the Lithuanian authorities refused to finance the
Belarusian rebel underground in 1923 and the eager activities of the Polish police and Defenziv, the rebel movement on the territory of
Western Belarus controlled by the Belarusian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, was actually rolled.

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