Lewis Namier, the Curzon Line, and the shaping of Poland’s eastern frontier after World War I
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
Year: 2013

The purpose of this article is to clarify the role of Lewis Namier, a Foreign Office expert on Polish affairs, and his contribution to the drawing of the “Curzon Line” – the Polish‑Ukrainian border in Eastern Galicia after World War I. Namier was of Polish‑Jewish descent, and he has gone down in Polish historiography as a man of rabidly anti‑Polish inclination; during the war and later at the Versailles Peace Conference, he consistently opposed Poland’s expansion in eastern Europe, notably propa