Open AccessThe USSR’s Geopolitical Interests, Problem of Sovietization of Eastern Europe and Soviet–Polish relations (the 1940s)
Author(s) -
Albioskova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2019-4-56-81
Subject(s) - geopolitics , diplomacy , political science , context (archaeology) , great power , power (physics) , order (exchange) , china , international relations , world war ii , political economy , economy , economic history , politics , sociology , law , geography , history , economics , physics , archaeology , finance , quantum mechanics
The article analyzes, in the geopolitical context, the Soviet policy towards Poland during the Second World War and the first post-war years. The struggle of Soviet diplomacy for the future mutual security of the USSR and Poland is presented as well as differing perceptions of interests, geopolitical role, allies and borders of the two countries and unequal possibilities of their implementation. The author demonstrates that the Soviet concept of the time and the USSR role as guarantor of Poland’s security and borders did not assume the sovietization of its social order, but the elimination of anti-Soviet forces and power sharing between communists and democrats.