Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict between Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine against the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic. It was for control of what is now Ukraine and part of Belarus.
| Polish–Soviet War, Interwar Period | |||||||
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| Part of The Russian Civil War | |||||||
 Polish defenses at Miłosna, during the decisive Battle of Warsaw, August 1920. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR |
 Republic of Poland.svg){kind=small} Ukrainian People's Republic | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Leon Trotsky Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Western Front) Joseph Stalin (Lviv/Lwów front) Alexander Ilyich Yegorov (Southwestern Front) Semyon Budyonny (1st Cavalry Army) |
 Józef Piłsudski Tadeusz Rozwadowski Edward Rydz-Śmigły Władysław Sikorski  Symon Petlyura | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| From ~50,000 in early 1919[1] to almost 800,000 in summer 1920[2] | From ~50,000 in early 1919[3] to ~738,000 in August 1920[4] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Estimated 60,000 killed[5]80,000 – 157,000 taken prisoner [6][7](including rear-area personnel) | About 48,000 killed[8][9] 113,518 wounded[9]51,351 taken prisoner[9]Names of Polish Armed Forces mortal casualties in period 1918 – 1920 totaling 47,055 | ||||||
A formal peace treaty, the Peace of Riga, was signed on 18 March 1921. It divided the land between Poland and Soviet Russia. Much of the land that was given to Poland became part of the Soviet Union after World War II.
Polish–Soviet War Media
Partitions of Poland–Lithuania in 1795: the coloured territories show the extent of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth just before the First Partition. The land absorbed by the Kingdom of Prussia is in blue (north-west), by the Austrian Habsburg monarchy in green (south) and by the Russian Empire in red (east).
Map of areas where Polish was used as a primary language in 1916 (published in post-1918 Poland)
Territorial establishment of the Second Polish Republic as of March 1919
Vladimir Lenin in 1919
Józef Piłsudski in 1919
Activists of the Polish Military Organisation in 1917
General Józef Haller swearing for the Polish flag when he was nominated to command the Blue Army
Five stages in the Polish–Soviet War
Józef Piłsudski, Edward Śmigły-Rydz, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Stanisław Szeptycki in front of soldiers of Polish Army. Wilno, Łukiski Squar
Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935) with soldiers in Minsk.
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References
- ↑ Davies 2003, p. 39
- ↑ Davies, White Eagle..., Polish edition, p.142–143
- ↑ Davies 2003, p. 41
- ↑ Davies, White Eagle..., Polish edition, p.162 and p.202.
- ↑ Rudolph J. Rummel (1 January 1990). Lethal politics: Soviet genocide and mass murder since 1917. Transaction Publishers. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-56000-887-3. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
- ↑ NDAP 2004 Official Polish government note about 2004 Rezmar, Karpus and Matveev book.
- ↑ Matveev 2006
- ↑ Norman Davies (1972). White eagle, red star: the Polish-Soviet war, 1919–20. Macdonald and Co. p. 247. ISBN 9780356040134. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 (in Polish) Karpus, Zbigniew, Alexandrowicz Stanisław, Waldemar Rezmer, Zwycięzcy za drutami. Jeńcy polscy w niewoli (1919–1922). Dokumenty i materiały (Victors Behind Barbed Wire: Polish Prisoners of War, 1919–1922: Documents and materials), Toruń, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, 1995, ISBN 978-83-231-0627-2.
