Negocjacje A. Gołowińskiego z S. Zanderem w latach 1921-1923 (eserowcy białoruscy versus poselstwo sowieckie na Litwie)

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltarusija; Sovietai; SSRS; Kaunas; Nepriklausomybė. Keywords: Belarus; Soviets; USSR; Kaunas; Independence.

ENThis article is dedicated to the unknown part of the history of Soviet-Belarusian relations. Since 1921, the emigrants themselves, including members of the Rada of the Belarusian People’s Republic, the unrecognized Belarusian government in exile, have sought contacts with Soviet diplomats, mainly for financial reasons. For the Soviet leaders, these contacts became more attractive after 1923: the final recognition of the Soviet-Polish border by the Council of Entente Ambassadors buried the hopes of emigrants for the realization of the idea of an independent Belarusian state. The search for a way out of this situation led them to either move to the BSSR, where they hoped to implement at least part of their ideas, or to work closely with Soviet diplomacy, which, in turn, used this channel to access the Belarusian minority. But there were some contacts before 1923: the member of Belarusian Socialist-Revolutionary Party, A. Gołowinski, had some meetings with Soviet mission secretary, S. Zander, in 1921-1922. He thought that Soviet support would be more eff ective than Lithuanian one, in the fight for Belarusian united independent state. The material was prepared on the base of their conversations recorded in the diaries and reports of Soviet diplomats. [From the publication]