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The frontiers between Poland, which had established an unstable independent government following World War I, and the former Tsarist empire, were rendered chaotic by the repercussions of the Russian revolutions, the civil war and the winding down of World War I. Poland's Józef Piłsudski envisioned a new federation (Międzymorze), forming a ...
"I. Russia, Poland and the Baltic, 1697–1721." Historical Journal 11.1 (1968): 3-34. Library of Congress, On Polish–Soviet relations in the early 1990s; Litauer, Stefan. "The Rôle of Poland between Germany and Russia." International Affairs (1935): 654-673. online; Małowist, Marian. "Poland, Russia and Western trade in the 15th and 16th ...
Communism in Poland can trace its origins to the late 19th century: the Marxist First Proletariat party was founded in 1882. Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy , SDKPiL) party and the publicist Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911) were ...
On 29 April 1920, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Communist Party of Russia appealed for volunteers for the war with Poland, to defend the Russian republic against a Polish usurpation. The first units of the volunteer army departed Moscow and headed for the front on 6 May. [157]
This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Poland
Congress Poland Russian Empire: Russian government victory 22 January 1863 – 18 June 1864 January Uprising: Polish National Government and multicultural insurgents Garibaldi Legion Russian Empire: Russian government victory 1905–1907 Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland: Polish revolutionaries Russian Empire: Russian government victory
In 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev removed the constitutional role of the Communist Party. Because of this it allowed non-communists to take power. As a result, Boris Yeltsin then became the first president of Russia. [4] Russian President Boris Yeltsin would ban the CPSU in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt.
The first clashes between the two sides occurred in February 1919, but full-scale war did not break out until the following year. Especially at first, neither Soviet Russia, embroiled in the Russian Civil War, nor Poland, still in the early stages of state re-building, were in a position to formulate and pursue clear and consistent war aims.