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The Ran affair – a blunder of Polish secret service in the USSR in 1936In the atmosphere of omnipresent escalating terror Stalin’s state, on May 28th, 1936, a Polish military secret service officer, Stefan Kasperski, was arrested in Moscow. Officially, he worked in the Polish Consulate in Kiev as a clerk named Alfred Ran, and unofficially he ran a secret service unit H5. In the 1930s the so called...
Demography and population localization of the Hungarian ethnic group in SlovakiaThe publication presents an outline of changes in the numerical force and localization of Hungarian population in Slovakia in the period between the separation of Slovaks from Hungary in 1918 to 1950.This is a crucial problem constituting a basis for considering the complex Hungarian question n Slovakia in that time. The...
People’s movemet in Bulgaria in the years 1914-1944The years 1914-1944 are an extremely uneasy period in the history of Bulgaria, not only in the national context, but also on a international scale. It was a time of two massive military conflicts which swept across Europe and inevitably involved Bulgaria. It was also a time of several political crises and coup d’etats. The history of Bulgarian people’s...
Modifications of the Bulgarian – Greek border in the 20th century (1913-1947)The text concentrates on presenting territory and border conflicts between Bulgaria and Greece, which were discussed during three international peace conferences. The first one, held in the summer of 1913 in Bukarest after the second Balkan war that ended in Bulgaria’s defeat, deprived the country of part of Aegean Macedonia...
Poland’s diplomatic battle for Eastern Galicia in the years 1918‑1923A number of local conflicts surfaced during World War I. Numerous countries stood for their rights, and that led to arguments which could not be solved peacefully. Battles for dominance over a certain area, for territories, for borders, broke out all over Europe. The end of the Great War was not the end of those conflicts, one of...
Around the genealogy of Lithuanians. At the origins of myth and historical-cultural argumentThe article covers issues concerning the origins of the Lithuanian nation. Genealogical questions relating to Lithuanians already began to appear in late medieval (Jan Długosz) Polish historiography in connection to successive unions. The inner and foreign policies of the 16th and 17th centuries made those...
The Curzon line as Poland’s eastern border – origin and political conditionsThe article is devoted to the forming of the contemporary eastern border of Poland, named in the subject literature “the Curzon line”. Its geographical location was put forward by Lord Curzon, British Foreign Minister at the time. It was not put to practice then. The conception was raised again during the last stage of World...
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