Between Prometheism and Realpolitik: Poland and Soviet Ukraine, 1921-1926
Journal: Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)
Year: 2016

The Treaty of Riga of March 1921 did not signify real peace. It was soon followed by the outbreak of a Polish-Soviet cold war, which many a time in the early 1920s threatened to heat up to boiling point. One of the salient fronts on which it was fought was Ukraine and the Ukrainian question. The means by which it was waged - first by Poland, and subsequently, more successfully, by the Soviets - was by attempts to stir up centrifugal tendencies on enemy territory, leading eventually to the splitt