Польско-украинский договор 1920 г.

Abstract

The article dwells on the history of the treaty concluded on April 21, 1920 in Warsaw between the governments of Republic of Poland and the newly formed Ukrainian National Republic. Amid the anarchy and chaos of the Civil War in Russia, an agreement with Symon Petliura’a Ukrainian government was considered by the Polish leadership as an important step in implementing an extensive plan to “buffer” Eastern Europe. The emergence of a newly formed Ukrainian state was to be a key element in the Polish Republic’s “security belt” to the east. The failure of J. Pilsudski’s “Kiev offensive” in the spring of 1920 revealed Poland’s vulnerabilities in the strategically important Ukrainian borderlands and led to the development of the policy of Polish “Prometheism” in the interwar period.