Why During the Polish-Bolshevik War Did Soviet Propaganda Discourse Dominate European Public Opinion?
Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
Year: 2022

In 1919–20, a war took place between two states that had emerged at the end of the Great War: Soviet Russia and the reborn Republic of Poland. It was a clash of widely different legal, political, and ideological systems. The conflict took place not only on the military and diplomatic planes but also within propaganda. Upon taking power in Russia, the Bolsheviks, in their official speeches, presented themselves to the world as the defenders of peace and the sovereignty of all nations; the imperia