The Director of the IPN - KŚZpNP Branch Office in Lublin – dr Robert Derewenda invites you to an international conference, which will be held in the Conference and Exhibition Hall of the IPN Branch Office in Lublin, 2 Wodopojna St.
International Scientific Conference
The apparatus of repression
– the executive body in the Soviet system
– history and research perspectives
(Lublin, 6–7 June 2024)
Agenda
The languages of conference: Polish and English.
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
6 June 2024 (Thursday)
8.30 a.m. – Opening of the conference, welcoming the participants
Panel I: Sovietisation and Soviets’ impact on the development of the apparatus of repression
Moderated by: Jacek Wołoszyn PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Lublin/ John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
9.00–9.20 a.m. – Piotr Olechowski, PhD (Jan Karski Institute of War Losses), “Serving Poland” as a pretext for repressing state officials in the 2nd Polish Republic during “the first Soviet rule” in Eastern Galicia (1939–1941)
9.20–9.40 a.m. – Daniel Piekaruś, PhD; Paweł Chojna (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Lublin), Kuybyshev NKVD graduates – their recruitment, training and role in the establishment of the apparatus of repression in Poland
9.40–10.00 a.m. – Aleksandar Životić, PhD (University of Belgrade), Soviet influence on the construction of the Yugoslav security system (1944–1948)
10.00–10.20 a.m. – Monika Komaniecka-Łyp, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Kraków), Cooperation in the domain of staff training between the Security Service of the Polish People’s Republic and the KGB
10.20–10.40 a.m. – Prof. Mykoła Kuczerepa (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University in Lutsk), Sovietisation of Volhynia between 1944 and early 1950s.
10.40–11.00 a.m. – Arkadiusz Machniak, PhD (University of Rzeszów), Information of the Polish Army – the Soviet model of the military security apparatus
11.00–11.20 a.m. – Discussion
11.20–11.40 a.m. – Coffee break
Panel II: Between the central authorities and the apparatus of repression
Moderated by: Władysław Bułhak, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw)
11.40–12.00 a.m. – Prof. Adam Massalski, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Local Office in Kielce), The relationship between the party and the security service in light of minutes of the meetings of the Voivodeship Committee of the PZPR party’s executive body in Kielce in 1949–1955
12.00–12.20 p.m. – Attila Szakolczai, PhD (Committee of National Remembrance, Hungary), The State Security and János Kádar just after the Hungarian Revolution
12.20–12.40 p.m. – Zsolt Balazs Petsy (Caroli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary), The relationship between the party state and the churches in Hungary between 1945 and 1990
12.40–1.00 p.m. – Łukasz Zaroda (Jagiellonian University), Representatives of the security apparatus of the 2nd Polish Republic under the surveillance of the communist repression apparatus in 1944–1956. An overview
1.00–1.20 p.m. – Discussion
1.20–2.00 p.m. – Lunch break
Panel III: The apparatus of repression – research proposals
Moderated by: Bartosz Kapuściak, PhD (Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic)
2.00–2.20 p.m. – Tomasz Krok (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Warsaw), Intelligence activities in post-war Poland (1945–1956) – the research status, methodological challenges and research perspectives
2.20–2.40 p.m. – Przemysław Piątek, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Katowice), The need to conduct interdisciplinary research into the operational methods of the apparatus of repression, based on the example of applying Soviet-based penal law constructs in the “People’s Poland” period
2.40–3.00 p.m. – Tomasz Osiński, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance/Polish Air Force University), Economy as the focus of the apparatus of repression in 1944–1956, based on the example of the Lublin Voivodeship – research proposals
3.00–3.20 p.m. – Robert Kuśnierz, PhD, Associate Professor (Pomeranian University), The archives of the Soviet military counter-intelligence service as the new source of research into the history of foreign service in the inter-war period
3.20–3.40 p.m. – Discussion
3.40–4.00 p.m. – Coffee break
Panel IV: Comparative studies
Moderated by: Justyna Dudek, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Lublin)
4.00–4.20 p.m. – Oleh Savchuk, PhD (Regional Policy Research Institute in Lutsk), Repressions against the civil population during the deportation of Poles from Volhynia and Ukrainians from the Lubelskie Voivodeship in 1944–1946
4.20–4.40 p.m. – Mateusz Ratyński, PhD (Museum of the Polish People’s Movement), Post-war repressions against the people’s movement in Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary – a comparative analysis
4.40–5.00 p.m. – Michał Sywula, PhD (WSB Merito University in Gdańsk), A comparative analysis of the Motorized Reserves of the Citizens’ Militia and Pohotovostni Pluk Verějné Bezpečnosti
5.00–5.20 p.m. – Maria Żukowska (University of Białystok), The issue of Stalinist repressions and discrimination in Russian and Belarusian school books
5.20–5.40 p.m. – Discussion
5.40–6.00 p.m. – Coffee break
Panel V: Institutions of repression
Moderated by: Joanna Żelazko, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Łódź)
6.00–6.20 p.m. – István Ötvös, PhD (Committee of National Remembrance, Hungary/Pázmány Péter Catholic University), Military intelligence in Soviet captivity
6.20–6.40 p.m. – Marta Paszek, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Katowice), The Military District Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice/Stalinogród (1946–1955) as an element of the terror system in the first decade of the People’s Poland
6.40–7.00 p.m. – Diana Maksymiuk, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Białystok), The Supreme Military Court in the Polish repression system (1944–1962)
7.00–7.20 p.m. – Discussion
7.20 p.m. – End of the first day of the Conference
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7 June 2024 (Friday)
8.30–10.00 a.m. Discussion – A study of the apparatus of repression – the status and perspectives – Moderated by: Justyna Dudek, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Lublin). Participants: Witold Bagieński, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw), Filip Musiał, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Kraków/Ignatianum University), Prof. Jarosław Syrnyk (University of Wrocław), Władysław Bułhak, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw)
Panel VI: Identifying opponents and other forms of repression
Moderated by: Prof. Mirosław Szumiło, (Maria Skłodowska-Curie University/ Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw)
10.00–10.20 a.m. – Prof. Jakub Wojtkowiak, PhD (Adam Mickiewicz University), The category of an “enemy” in the cases pursued by the NKVD against the Polish Red Army officers during the Great Purge
10.20–10.40 a.m. – Nataliya Kryvashei (University of Białystok), The Winter War in the press: Soviet propaganda’s creation of the enemy image, based on the example of the “Pravda” newspaper
10.40–11.00 a.m. – Bartłomiej Brążkiewicz, PhD (Jagiellonian University), Repressive psychiatry in the USSR
11.00–11.20 a.m. – Paweł Orłowski, PhD (Polish Air Force University), Officers’ repressions against the alumni of seminaries in military service in Polish People’s Republic
11.20–11.40 a.m. – Gabriela Gajda, PhD (independent researcher), Ideology in the censorship of foreign novels in 1945–1990
11.40–12.00 – Izabela Bożyk, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance, Local Office in Kielce), The staff of the security apparatus in the Kielce region in 1944–1956 – an attempt at a collective portrait
12.00–12.20 p.m. – Discussion
12.20–1.00 – Lunch break
Panel VII: Selected aspects of the activities of the apparatus of repression in Poland and other Soviet Bloc countries
Moderated by: Witold Bagieński, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw),
1.00–1.20 p.m. – Serhij Tkaczow, PhD (Ternopil, Ukraine), Liquidation of the Polish underground movement in Kremenets by NKVD-KGB services in 1944–1945
1.20–1.40 p.m. – Janusz Kowalczyk (Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Rzeszów), Operations of the NKVD forces in the Rzeszów region in1944–1945. An overview
1.40–2.00 p.m. – Waldemar Grabowski, PhD (Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw), The structures of the Government Delegation for Poland under the investigation of the Security Service – selected examples
2.00–2.20 p.m. – Dragoș Ursu, PhD (1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia/National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia), Professionalising repression in communist Romania: adapting the methods and practices of the Securitate, following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
2.20–2.40 p.m. – Ioana Ursu, PhD (National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia/1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia), An insight into the Romanian apparatus of repression during 1948–1965 in Romania: surveillance techniques and materials and reasons for the surveillance of clergy
2.40–3.00 p.m. – Stanisław Płużański (independent researcher), Repressions against the Cursed Soldiers after 1956 – selected examples
3.00–3.20 p.m. – Discussion
3.20–3.40 p.m. – Coffee break