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14: Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Polish-Bolzevic War of 1919 to 1920

Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks didn't think they were starting a Russian revolution. They thought that they were the powder keg for a global revolution. Then what do you do when the global revolution doesn't come? Well, your next move is to say, okay, we're going to help it along. But what's in the way? Poland. And the Poles aren't just in the way, they're moving east. So this sets up the Polish-Bolzevic War of 1919 to 1920. The furthest the Poles ever get in this war is Kiev in May of 1920.

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