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Russo-Polish War: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1919 - 1920
Participants Poland • Soviet Union

Photos

Five Polish cavalry officers in uniform sit on horseback in a courtyard in Warsaw, Poland, with soldiers and historic buildings in the background.
Józef Piłsudski
Antique map from 1902 showing Russia in Europe, including Poland and Finland, with detailed borders, cities, rivers, and neighboring regions. The map uses fine lines and muted colors to distinguish territorial boundaries and geographic features as they appeared in the early twentieth century.
Several Polish soldiers in uniform sit and rest beside a makeshift tent in a grassy field, with a line of horses and more men visible in the background.
Russian infantry soldiers lie prone in a grassy field with rifles and bayonets aimed forward, with a village of wooden houses in the background, Poland, World War I.
World War I; Compiègne, France
Władysław Sikorski
Map highlighting Poland's territory from 1921 to 1939, shaded in pink, with present-day cities such as Warsaw, Krakow, Lwow (Lviv), Vilnius, Gdansk, and Lublin marked. Surrounding cities like Riga, Minsk, Moscow, Kyiv, Vienna, and Budapest are also shown for geographic context. Major rivers such as the Vistula, Bug, and Dnieper are labeled.
A group of Russian prisoners in long coats stand behind a barbed wire fence at a military camp in Arys, East Prussia during World War I, with guards nearby.
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Key People

Józef Piłsudski
Józef Piłsudski
Polish revolutionary and statesman
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Russian revolutionary
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Soviet military officer
Władysław Sikorski
Władysław Sikorski
Polish statesman

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