@misc{Kornat_Marek_(1971–_)_Pierwsza_2017, author={Kornat, Marek (1971– )}, editor={Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences}, editor={Polish Historical Society}, copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license}, address={Warszawa}, howpublished={online}, year={2017}, language={pol}, abstract={he Polish-Soviet War (1919–1920) is one of the key factors shaping the Versailles governance in Eastern Europe. Having saved implementation of the Treaty of Versailles, the war gave the nations of Central and Eastern Europe an extremely valuable opportunity, for twenty years, to decide about themselves and build their own national countries on the remnants of three empires, which disintegrated in the after-math of the geopolitical revolution brought by the Great War (1914–1918). From the very beginning, the West did not understand the geopolitical significance of the Polish-Soviet War, seen as a local conflict of two countries, triggered by “Polish imperialism”.}, type={Text}, title={Pierwsza zdrada Zachodu : wokół książki Andrzeja Nowaka}, URL={http://rcin.org.pl/ihpan/Content/62546/PDF/WA303_82068_A52-KH-R-124-1_Kornat.pdf}, volume={124}, number={1}, journal={Kwartalnik Historyczny}, publisher={Instytut Historii PAN}, keywords={Poland - 1900-1945 - historiography, Versailles order, Treaty of Versailles (1919), World War, 1914-1918 - territorial questions - Poland, Polish-Soviet War (1919-1920), Great Britain - foreign relations - Poland - 1900-1945, appeasement}, }