Europe 287
MID#4186
Started in February 2000. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/345
Yugoslavia dyad dispute list.
MID#4343
Started in November 2000. See the narrative in the 2 United States of America/345
Yugoslavia dyad dispute list.
290 Poland/365 Russia
MID#2603
Started in November 1918. See the narrative in the 365 Russia/368 Lithuania dyad
dispute list.
MID#2604
Started in January 1919. See the narrative in the 365 Russia/367 Latvia dyad dispute
list.
MID#1219
Dispute Number: 1219
Date(s): January 1, 1919 to September 18, 1920
Participants: 365 Russia/290 Poland
Outcome (and Settlement): Victory for side B (Negotiated)
Fatalities: >999 deaths
Narrative: Following World War I, Poland, again independent after more than a
century of occupation, sought the territory it originally possessed in 1772. The Sovi-
ets were distracted with the Russian Civil War, and this prompted Poland to begin
military operations at the beginning of January 1919. They established a 300-mile
front by March and took their first city in April. By the end of the year Polish armies
had recovered all the territory Russia gained by partition in 1795, and Poland and the
Soviets secretly agreed to a truce.
By April 1920 the Soviets had removed Lieutenant General Denikin’s armies as
a threat to Poland. However, diplomatic negotiations soon broke down, and Poland
launched additional military operations on April 25. Polish troops then captured Kiev
on May 7, but a Soviet counterattack compelled Poland to evacuate Ukraine on June
- By the middle of August, the Soviets were 20 miles from Warsaw, then a coun-
terattack by Poland pushed Soviet troops out of ethnic Poland toward the end of the
month. On September 18, the two sides agreed to a ceasefire, and on March 18, 1921,
both settled the dispute with the Treaty of Riga, which defined the boundary between
them.