Anti-Soviet followers of the grand duke Nikolai Nikolaevich in Poland in the first half of the 1920s (a case study of the Central archives of Russian Federal security service)

The study deals with the anti-Soviet activity of the monarchist organization following the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich in Poland during the first half of the 1920s. The research is based on rare documents from the Central Archives of Russian Federal Security Service. The leaders of the above-mentioned organization, its structure, funding, and membership are discussed. The research focuses on its anti-Soviet activities, including propaganda both in Poland and Soviet Russia. Moreover, the paper examines practices to combat the Soviet regime by means of propaganda literature, ways of its delivery to Poland and Russia. The author revealed that the followers’ activity was supported by the authorities of other countries as well as various foreign organizations, including charitable ones.