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| Conflict | Polish-Bolshevik War | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1919- 1921 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place | Central and Eastern Europe | ||||||||||||||||
| Result | Polish victory | ||||||||||||||||
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"Polish-Bolshevik War" refers to the war (February 1919 March 1921) that determined the borders between Soviet Russia and a once again independent Poland.
The war is referred to by several names. A common one is "Polish-Soviet War," which is potentially confusing, since "Soviet" is usually thought of as relating to the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1, which did not officially come into being until January 1924. Alternative names include Russo-Polish War and Polish-Russian War of 1919-21. In Polish histories it has come down as the War of 1920 (Wojna 1920 roku), while Soviet historians often either called it the War against White Poland or considered it part of the War against Foreign Intervention--part of the Russian Civil WarThe Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1920. Following the success of the Russian Revolution, the new Russian ( Bolshevik) government made peace with Germany at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ratified on March 6 1918. This negotiated peace was th.
In 1918Events January January 8 President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. February February 3 The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long)., with the close of the First World War, Poland regained her independenceAlternate uses: see Independence (disambiguation Independence for a country, organization or branch of government is the same as self-rule, as opposed to being ruled by someone else. Establishing such independence sometimes implies a violent break-out or lost in 1795Events January 16 French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands. January 20 French troops enter Amsterdam and later proclaim Batavian Republic. January 23 Dutch fleet freezes in Issel Meer. February 7 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed. with the Third Partiton of Poland. After 123 years' rule by Poland's three imperial neighbors, the Second Polish Republic was proclaimed.
The Polish statesman Józef Pilsudski envisioned a federation (the "Federation of Miedzymorze") to comprise Poland, Lithuania and western Ukraine (centered at Kyiv), constituting a Polish-led East European confederation as a counterweight to Russia. The new country would have had similar borders to those of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 15th 18th centuries .
At the same time, Russia was transforming herself into the Soviet Union through the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War that had begun in 1917.
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the new Communist government of Russia, saw Poland as the bridge that the Red Army would have to cross in order to link up the Russian Revolution with the German Revolution that was underway just then, and to assist other communist movements in western Europe.