Miejsce II Rzeczypospolitej w sowieckiej polityce zagranicznej (1918-1939)

• Authors: Materski, Wojciech

Title variants

PL

II Republic in Soviet Foreign Policy (1918–1939)

PL

Die II. polnische Volksrepublik in der sowjetischen Außenpolitik (1918–1939)

PL

Le lieu de la Séconde République Polonaise dans la politique étrangère de l’Union Sovietique (l918–1939)

Abstracts

EN

This article attempts an assessment of the Soviet Policy towards Poland in all the inter-war period. On the basis of a detailed analysis it demonstrates radical changes in this policy which in turn resulted from the changes within the Soviet Empire. In the years 1918-1939 'The New State' underwent three phases: ideological, pragmatic and imperial. Respectively, Poland was in turn: an obstacle, an ally-to-be and an object of some wider political designs aiming at Paris, Berlin or Geneva. Up until the mid-twenties the Bolsheviks had their active policy towards Poland which ended when 'The Rapallo Line' was finally established. Nevertheless, after Locarno and the Berlin Treaty Poland grew unimportant and secondary: therefore, to understand the policy of this period one should concentrate on the Soviet activity in all Europe, especially along the lines Moscow-Paris and Moscow-Berlin. In the 1930-s Poland was for the Soviet Empire only a part of these two political triangles and its importance kept decreasing. Finally, the question of Poland in the Soviet policy was settled in the Soviet-German Agreement of September 28, 1939 which is generally and justly viewed as a founding stone of 'The Fourth Partition of Poland'.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Nauk Historycznych
• Year: 2002
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2002

Contributors

author

Materski, Wojciech

other

Uniwersytet Łódzki

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/19880