The Poles - Convicts and Pows in 1918-1921 (Based on the Archives of Samara Region)
The article is concerned with the role played by the Poles in lending support to the Committee of the Constituent Assembly members (KOMUCH) and the extraordinary measures taken by the Soviet power after the liberation of Samara in the autumn of 1918. The reasons for their imprisonment are revealed on the basis of the formerly unknown and uninvestigated materials from regional archives. Special attention is paid to the officers of the Polish army taken prisoner; the roles of the servicemen taken prisoner and the nominal lists of the Polish citizens imprisoned in the penitentiary institutions of the Soviet power are brought out, their number is established and the conditions of confinement described.