Galicja Wschodnia w traktatach powersalskich i ryskim
Eastern Galicia in the Post-Versailles' Treaties and the Treaty of Riga 1919-1923

Summary/Abstract: The conflict over Eastern Galicia and the eastern border of the Poland was one of the most difficult for an independent Polish state. Its dissolution was influenced by the decisions of the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference in Paris, the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and the Treaty of Riga. The tragic stage of this conflict was the bloody war between Poland and Galician Ukrainians and then Soviet Russia. The Entente's indecisive policy negatively influenced the conflict, which, from 1918 to 1923, hoped for the reconstruction of white Russia. The decision of the Conference of Ambassadors, which was beneficial for Poland, only temporarily alleviated the conflict with the Ukrainians, culminating in the Second World War. The Polish population in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia experienced not only criminal actions on the part of the German and Soviet occupiers but also genocide on the part of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and the Ukrainian population. After the capitulation of the Third Reich, the Polish communists agreed to the eastern border of Poland along the Curzon Line, and Eastern Galicia was incorporated into the USSR.

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