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During the Polish-Soviet war, did Józef Piłsudski want to help Belarusians in their struggle for independence?

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Course ID: 3620-LWPS-H-OG
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Course title: During the Polish-Soviet war, did Józef Piłsudski want to help Belarusians in their struggle for independence?
Name in Polish: Czy w latach wojny polsko-sowieckiej Józef Piłsudski chciał pomóc Białorusinom w ich wybijaniu się na niepodległość?
Organizational unit: Studies in Eastern Europe
Course groups: (in Polish) Przedmioty ogólnouniwersyteckie Studium Europy Wschodniej
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Language: Polish
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Short description:

I. A REALLY VERY SHORT HISTORY OF THE LAND OF THE FIRST GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA UNTIL THE END OF WW I

II FROM NOVEMBER 1918 TO JANUARY 1919.

III FROM JANUARY TO APRIL 1919

IV – BETWEEN APRIL AND AUGUST 1919.

V – FROM SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1919

VI - FROM DECEMBER 1919 TO MARCH 1920

VII – FROM APRIL TO JUNE 1920

VIII - FROM JULY TO NOVEMBER 1920

IX. EPILOGUE.

Full description:

I. A REALLY VERY SHORT HISTORY OF THE LAND OF THE FIRST GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA. The question of the identity of the inhabitants of the lands of the former WXL. The legacy of the first German occupation in the eastern territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

II FROM NOVEMBER 1918 TO JANUARY 1919. Origins and circumstances

shaping two opposing Polish policy programs

east. Building the foundations of Polish statehood.

III FROM JANUARY TO APRIL 1919

Notes by Anton Łuckiewicz and the Lithuanian government on Poland. The beginning of the Polish-Soviet war (January 5, 1919). Relations between the Bolsheviks and the inhabitants of Vilnius during the Bolshevik occupation. The Belarusian Regiment in Grodno and social relations there. .Political situation on the Soviet side of the front. Contribution of the Committee for the Defense of the Eastern Borderlands to the project of creating a Civil Board subordinated to the Supreme Commander in the territories liberated from the Bolsheviks. The activities of the Border Guard in the lands successively coming under the provisional Civil Administration of the Eastern Territories. In search of a consensus. White Russians and Poles. Poles and White Russians. Piłsudski and Red Russia. In search of a consensus with the Lithuanians - Józef Piłsudski's envoy to Kaunas.

IV – BETWEEN APRIL AND AUGUST 1919.

The Vilnius Appeal and other public statements of the Head of State and the Commander-in-Chief. Creation of the temporary Civil Administration of the Eastern Territories. Legislative Sejm and its decisions on Polish eastern policy. The activity of Belarusian delegates on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Conference and its consequences. The relations of Belarusians with the authorities of the Civil Board of the Eastern Territories, the Head of State and his plenipotentiaries, and with the Prime Minister of Poland. The Lithuanian coup d'état in Kaunas (August 1919) and its connection to the Belarusian question.

V – FROM SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1919

1. Diplomatic maneuvers by Anton Łuckiewicz and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The development of the situation after the fiasco of the Kaunas coup. Piłsudski in Minsk, liberated from the Bolsheviks. Activity of the appointed Magistrate and the City Council of Minsk. Decree of October 22, 1919 on the organization of Belarusian troops. The new position of the Legislative Sejm on the issue of Polish eastern policy.

VI - FROM DECEMBER 1919 TO MARCH 1920

Belarusian coup d'état on December 13, 1919. Establishment of two Belarusian governments. Elections to the City Council in Minsk. Propaganda "peace proposals" as a new tool of the Soviets' political game. Initiative of Nikolai W. Tchaikovsky and Boris W. Savinkov. Activity of the Supreme Council and Anton Łuckiewicz until March 6, 1920. Belarusian school issue. Polish-Belarusian talks in Minsk. Attitude of Anton Łuckiewicz and other Belarusian politicians to Piłsudski and Poland.

VII – FROM APRIL TO JUNE 1920

The Entente's Changing Attitude to Soviet Russia. The Belarusian Military Commission in the light of the documentation stored in the RGWA in Moscow. Piłsudski-Petlura Alliance. Consensus on eastern policy between Poles and between Poles and Belarusians from the Supreme Council. Activities of the ZCZW administration until ZCZW is subordinated to PRM and NIK in Warsaw. Activity of the Supreme Council and the Belarusian Military Commission in the hour of trial. Plans of Russian monarchists towards Belarusians

VIII - FROM JULY TO NOVEMBER 1920

Summer of 1920. Development of the military and political situation in the region. The Lithuanian-Soviet Treaty of July 12, 1920 and the second proclamation of the BSSR on July 31, 1920. Secret agreement between Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz and Borys Wiktorowicz Savinkov (August 27, 1920). September 1920. Central Lithuania. The Hymans Project. Activity of the Russian and Belarusian Political Committees. Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz - the last Belarusian chance. The fiasco of Żeligowski's "rebellion".

IX. EPILOGUE.

Year 1921. Treaty of Riga and its consequences. The Belarusian leaders' dreams of an "imagined Belarus" are over. Prague Congress.

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