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In April to June 1919, the Polish Blue Army of General Józef Haller arrived from France. It consisted of over 67,000 well-equipped and highly trained soldiers. [62] The Blue Army helped drive the Ukrainian forces east past the Zbruch River and decisively contributed to the outcome of the war. The West Ukrainian People's Republic was defeated ...
The Battle of Warsaw (Polish: Bitwa Warszawska; Russian: Варшавская битва, Varshavskaya bitva), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula (Polish: Cud nad Wisłą), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory and complete disintegration of the Red Army in August 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War.
In 1919, Russian Jews were caught in the middle of a civil war, and became the victims of warring Red and White Russian, Ukrainian and Polish forces, among others, resulting in the loss of an estimated 100,000 Jewish lives. [16] White Russian troops led by Denikin staged pogroms against Jews in practically every town he captured. [17]
In the aftermath of World War I, the map of Central and Eastern Europe had drastically changed. [2] The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918), by which Russia had lost to Imperial Germany all the European lands that Russia had seized in the previous two centuries, was rejected by the Bolshevik government in November 1918, following armistice, the surrender of Germany and her allies, and the ...
The 1920 Kiev offensive (or Kiev expedition, Polish: wyprawa kijowska) was a major part of the Polish–Soviet War.It was an attempt by the armed forces of the recently established Second Polish Republic led by Józef Piłsudski, in alliance with the Ukrainian People's Republic led by Symon Petliura, to seize the territories of modern-day Ukraine which mostly fell under Soviet control after ...
This is a list of wars between Piast Poland and Kievan Rus', from the 10th to the 13th century. Polish victory Kievan Rus' victory Another result* *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Piast Poland or Kievan Rus' in which the other intervened, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
Battle of Nowogródek (18 April 1919) Battle of Staryki and Czernica (20 April 1919) Battle of Święciany (1919) (13–14 May 1919) Battle of Berezina (1919) Battle of Rafałówka (June 1919) Battle of Pastavy (1919) (19 June – 21 June, 1919) Battle of Treszczyna (July 1919) Operation Minsk: Polish offensive to Minsk (July–August 1919)
Battles of the Polish–Soviet War; Victory: 1919– 1920. Polish-Lithuanian War Second Polish Republic Central Lithuania Lithuania: Lucjan Żeligowski; Żeligowski's Mutiny; Battles of the Polish–Lithuanian War; Victory: 1923: 1923 Kraków riot Second Polish Republic: Polish Socialist Party: Internal conflict. Government crackdown on ...