Abstract
Abstract Despite the profound and widespread reaction against war after 1918, exemplified in the 1920s by the disarmament conferences and the proclamation of the Kellogg Pact, there was by no means universal acceptance that war had ceased to be a viable instrument of state policy. In eastern Europe, for example, the Bolsheviks triumphed in the civil war and established their authority over the bulk of the former Tsarist empire; while the Poles decisively defeated a Russian invasion at the battle of Warsaw in 1920, and enhanced their victory by extending their frontier eastward at the Treaty of Riga the following year. Thus, while in Britain and France, ‘men counted their dead and meditated on the futility of war, the peoples of eastern Europe counted their gains and losses and observed the efficacy of force’.
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