Editing Treaty of Riga

{{Short description|1921 treaty which ended the Polish-Soviet War}}
{{About|Polish–Soviet peace treaty of 1921|Latvian–Soviet treaty of 1920|Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty}}
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| date_signed         = 18 March 1921
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* {{flag|Russian SFSR|1918|name=Soviet Russia}}<ref name=tor>[http://poland1939.ru/content/mirnyy-dogovor-mezhdu-rossiey-i-ukrainoy-s-odnoy-storony-i-polshey-s-drugoy-rizhskiy-mirnyy Text of the document]. Германо-советско-польская война 1939 года website.</ref>
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{{Territorial evolution of Poland}}

The '''Treaty of Riga''' was signed in [[Riga]], [[Latvia]], on {{awrap|18 March 1921}} between [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] on one side and [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] (acting also on behalf of [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Belarus]]) and [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Ukraine]] on the other, ending the [[Polish–Soviet War]] (1919–1921).<ref>K. Marek. ''Identity and Continuity of States in Public International Law''. Librairie Droz 1968. pp. 419–420.</ref> The chief negotiators of the peace were [[Jan Dąbski]] for the Polish side<ref name="Savchenko2009" /> and [[Adolph Joffe]] for the Soviet side.

Under the treaty, Poland recognized Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, abrogating its 1920 [[Treaty of Warsaw (1920)|Treaty of Warsaw]] with the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]]. The Treaty of Riga established a Polish–Soviet border about {{Convert|250|km}} east of the [[Curzon Line]], incorporating large numbers of [[Ukrainians]] and [[Belarusians]] into the Second Polish Republic. Poland, which agreed to withdraw from areas further east (notably [[Minsk]]), renounced claims to the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]'s border prior to the 1772 [[First Partition of Poland]], recovering only those eastern regions ([[Kresy]]) lost to Russia in the 1795 [[Third Partition of Poland|Third Partition]]. While Russia and Ukraine agreed to withdraw their claims to lands west of the demarcated border line. Poland, by recognising the puppet states of the USSR and simultaneously withdrawing recognition of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic|UPR]] (its only ally in the Polish-Bolshevik war), was in fact giving up on the federation programme, while Russia approved of the fact that the whole of Galicia, as well as the territories of the former Russian Empire, inhabited largely by non-Polish people, were to be found within Poland's borders. The treaty also addressed matters of sovereignty, citizenship, national minorities, repatriation, and diplomatic and commercial relations. The Treaty lasted until the [[Soviet invasion of Poland|invasion of Poland]] by the [[Soviet Union]] in 1939, and their border's where redefined by [[Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945|an agreement in 1945]].

== Background ==
{{Further|Polish–Soviet War}}
[[World War I]] removed former state borders across Europe. Following the [[Russian Revolution]] which had renounced Tsarist claims to [[Poland]], as well as the [[Central Powers]] provisions for [[Congress Poland]] in the March 1918 [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]], [[The Great War]] had ended with the collapse of the Central Powers. The [[Treaty of Versailles]] had re-established Poland's independence after a century and a half of being divided by three empires.

The [[Russian Civil War]] presented an opportunity for Poland, under the leadership of [[Józef Piłsudski]], to regain parts of the territories of the former [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] that had been incorporated into the [[Russian Empire]] during the [[Partitions of Poland–Lithuania]]. In 1920, [[Kiev offensive (1920)|Piłsudski's initially successful military offensive into Ukraine]], whose aim was to establish an independent Ukraine in alliance with Poland, was met with a Soviet counter-offensive into central Poland. Poland was seen by the Soviets, who intended to extend the [[October Revolution|revolution]] westwards, as a land bridge to [[Western Europe]]. The [[Polish–Soviet War]] culminated in the [[Battle of Warsaw (1920)|Battle of Warsaw]], won by the Poles. Further [[Battle of the Niemen River|military setbacks]] persuaded Soviet Russia to enter into peace treaty negotiations.<ref name="Cienciala">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090403175920/http://web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hist557/lect11.htm The Rebirth of Poland]. University of Kansas, lecture notes by Professor [[Anna M. Cienciala]], 2004. Last accessed on 2 June 2006.</ref> This was a relief for the government of Poland, a country heavily damaged and exhausted by the war, who also wanted to conclude peace talks. Piłsudski and his supporters, however, having failed in their quest, opposed the peace process.

== Negotiations ==
[[Image:Caricature_for_Riga_Peace_1921.png|thumb|right|250px|Belarusian nationalist caricature: "Down with the infamous Riga partition! Long live a free peasant indivisible Belarus!"]]
Peace talks began in [[Minsk]] on 17 August<!--find ref for that date--> 1920, but the talks were moved to Riga, and resumed on {{awrap|21 September}}.<ref name="Wandycz1962">{{cite book|author=Piotr Stefan Wandycz|title=France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919–1925: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from the Paris Peace Conference to Locarno|url=https://archive.org/details/francehereastern0000wand_w3|url-access=registration|date=1962|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0816658862|pages=[https://archive.org/details/francehereastern0000wand_w3/page/178 178]–180}}</ref> The Soviets proposed two solutions, the first on 21 September and the second on {{awrap|28 September}}. The Polish delegation made a counter-offer on 2 October. Three days later the Soviets offered amendments to the Polish offer, which Poland accepted. An [[armistice]] was signed on 12 October and went into effect on 18 October 1920.<ref>{{cite book|title=Soviet foreign policy: 1917–1980, in two volumes, Volume 1|publisher=Progress Publishers|page=181}}</ref> The chief negotiators were [[Jan Dąbski]] for Poland<ref name="Savchenko2009">{{cite book|author=Andrew Savchenko|title=Belarus: A Perpetual Borderland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmld75blKCwC&pg=PA99|year=2009|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004174481|pages=98–100}}</ref> and [[Adolph Joffe]] for the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]].<ref name="Wandycz1962"/> The Soviet side insisted, successfully, on excluding non-communist Ukrainian representatives from the negotiations.<ref name="Wandycz1962"/>

The Soviets' military setbacks made their delegation offer Poland substantial territorial concessions in the contested border areas. However, to many observers, it looked as though the Polish side conducted the Riga talks as if  Poland had lost the war. The Polish delegation was dominated by members of the [[Endecja|National Democrats]], who were Piłsudski's political opponents.<ref name="Savchenko2009"/> The National Democrats did not want non-Polish minorities in the reborn Polish state to constitute more than one-third of the overall population, therefore, prepared to accept a Polish-Soviet border substantially to the west of what was being offered by the Soviets even though it would leave hundreds of thousands of ethnic Poles on the Soviet side of the border.

That decision was also motivated by political objectives. The National Democrats' base of public support was among Poles in central and western Poland. In the east of the country and in the disputed borderlands, support for the National Democrats was greatly outweighed by support for Piłsudski, and in the countryside, outside the cities, Poles were outnumbered by Ukrainians or Belarusians in those areas. A border too far to the east would thus be against not only the National Democrats' ideological objective of minimising the minority population of Poland but also their electoral prospects.<ref name="Snyderriga">{{cite book|author=Timothy Snyder|title=The reconstruction of nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSpEynLxJ1MC&pg=PA68|access-date=16 February 2011|year=2004|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0300105865|pages=68–}}</ref> Warweary public opinion in Poland also favoured an end to the negotiations,<ref name="Wandycz1962"/> and both sides remained under pressure from the [[League of Nations]] to reach a deal.

A special parliamentary delegation, consisting of six members of the Polish [[Sejm]], held a vote on whether to accept the Soviets' far-reaching concessions, which would have left Minsk on the Polish side of the border. Pressured by the National Democrat ideologue, [[Stanisław Grabski]], the 100&nbsp;km of extra territory was rejected, a victory for the nationalist doctrine and a stark defeat for Piłsudski's [[federalism]].<ref name="Wandycz1962"/><ref name="Savchenko2009"/>

Regardless, the peace negotiations dragged on for months because of Soviet reluctance to sign. However, the matter became more urgent for the Soviet leadership, which had to deal with increased internal unrest towards the end of 1920, such as the [[Tambov Rebellion]] and later the [[Kronstadt rebellion]] against the Soviet authorities. As a result, [[Vladimir Lenin]] ordered the Soviet plenipotentiaries to finalise the peace treaty with Poland.<ref name="Cienciala"/>

The Treaty of Riga, signed on 18 March 1921, partitioned the disputed territories in [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]] between Poland and Russia and ended the conflict.

==Terms==
The Treaty consisted of 26 articles.<ref name=palij>{{cite book |title=The Ukrainian-Polish defensive alliance, 1919–1921: an aspect of the Ukrainian revolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2T9zYXqL56AC&q=treaty+of+riga+26+shall+be+ratified&pg=PA169 |author=Michael Palij |publisher=CIUS Press |year=1995 |pages=165–168 |isbn=978-1-895571-05-9}}</ref> Poland was to receive monetary compensation (30 million [[Russian ruble|rubles]] in gold) for its economic input into the [[Russian Empire]] during the [[Partitions of Poland]]. Under Article 14 Poland was also to receive railway materials (locomotives, rolling stock, etc.) with a value of 29 million gold roubles.<ref>{{cite book |author=J.C. Johari|title=Soviet Diplomacy 1925–41|year=2000|page=42|publisher=Anmol Publications PVT. LTD|isbn=978-81-7488-491-6}}</ref> Russia was to surrender works of art and other Polish national treasures acquired from Polish territories after 1772 (such as the [[Jagiellonian tapestries]] and the [[Załuski Library]]). Both sides renounced claims to war compensation. Article 3 stipulated that border issues between Poland and [[Lithuania]] would be settled by those states.<ref name=palij/>
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TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN POLAND, RUSSIA AND THE UKRAINE {{pb}} Riga, March 18, 1921 {{pb}}
'''''Article 3'''''. Russia and the Ukraine abandon all rights and claims to the territories situated to the west of the frontier laid down by Article 2 of the present Treaty. Poland, on the other hand, abandons in favour of the Ukraine and of White Ruthenia all rights and claims to the territory situated to the east of this frontier. {{pb}}
'''''Article 4'''''. Each of the Contracting Parties mutually undertakes to respect in every way the political sovereignty of the other Party, to abstain from interference in its internal affairs, and particularly to refrain from all agitation, propaganda or interference of any kind, and not to encourage any such movement.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Treaty of Peace Between Poland, Russia and the Ukraine |publisher=Riga, March 18, 1921 |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-94-009-9272-6%2F1.pdf |id=Resource: Appendix C |author=Partial English text of the Treaty of Riga as Appendix C in G.V. Kacewicz (2012), ''Great Britain, The Soviet Union and the Polish Government in Exile (1939–1945)'', p. 229–230. The full text has 26 articles.}}</ref> }}

Article 6 created citizenship options for persons on either side of the new border.<ref name=palij/> Article 7 consisted of a mutual guarantee that all nationalities would be permitted "free intellectual development, the use of their national language, and the exercise of their religion."<ref name=palij/> In the treaty, it was agreed that Poland would refuse to form federations with Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Butkus |first=Zenonas |last2=Aleknavičė |first2=Karolina |title=Stebuklas prie Vyslos: kaip 1920 metais lenkai sutriuškino bolševikus |url=https://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/istorija/stebuklas-prie-vyslos-kaip-1920-metais-lenkai-sutriuskino-bolsevikus-582-1253860 |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=15min.lt |language=lt}}</ref>

==Aftermath==
The Allied Powers were initially reluctant to recognise the treaty, which had been concluded without their participation.<ref name=palij/> Their postwar conferences had supported the [[Curzon Line]] as the Polish-Russian border, and Poland's territorial gains in the treaty lay about 250&nbsp;km east of that line.<ref name=hup>{{cite book|title=Conflict and chaos in Eastern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ycNApODqgRUC&q=treaty+riga+borders&pg=PA210|author=Dennis P. Hupchick|year=1995|page=210|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] | isbn=978-0-312-12116-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy|author1=Michael Graham Fry |author2=Erik Goldstein |author3=Richard Langhorne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5ndamBABdIC&q=treaty+riga+curzon+line&pg=PA203|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group|page=203|year=2004 | isbn=978-0-8264-7301-1}}</ref> French support led to its recognition in March 1923 by France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan, followed by the United States in April.<ref name=palij/>

In Poland, the Treaty of Riga was met with criticism from the very beginning. Some characterised the treaty as short-sighted and argued that much of what Poland had gained during the Polish-Soviet war was lost during the peace negotiations. [[Józef Piłsudski]] had participated in the Riga negotiations only as an observer and called the resulting treaty "an act of cowardice".<ref name="Davies">{{cite book | author =Norman Davies| title =White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919–20 | year =2003 | pages =399 | publisher =Pimlico | isbn =978-0-7126-0694-3| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=DMoPXktGwiUC&q=Riga+an+act+of+cowardice&pg=PA399 | author-link =Norman Davies }} (First edition: New York, St. Martin's Press, inc., 1972.)</ref> Piłsudski felt the agreement was a shameless and short-sighted political calculation, with Poland abandoning its Ukrainian allies.<ref name="Wandycz1962"/> On 15 May 1921, he apologised to Ukrainian soldiers during his visit to the internment camp at [[Kalisz]].<ref name="Bruski">{{cite journal | author =Jan Jacek Bruski |date=August 2002 | title =Sojusznik Petlura | journal =[[Wprost]] | volume = 1029| issue =2002–08–18 | issn =0209-1747|url =http://www.wprost.pl/ar/?O=13734&C=57|access-date =28 September 2006 |language=pl}}</ref><ref name="Borzęcki2008">{{cite book|author=Jerzy Borzęcki|title=The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KwBpAAAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-12121-6|page=232}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Polityka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4c8AQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Wydawn. Wspólczesne RSW "Prasa-Książka-Ruch"|page=74|quote=Ja was przepraszam, panowie, ja was przepraszam – to miało być zupełnie inaczej}}</ref> The treaty substantially contributed to the failure of his plan to create a Polish-led [[Międzymorze|Intermarium]] federation of [[Eastern Europe]], as portions of the territory that had been proposed for the federation were ceded to the Soviets.<ref name="Snyderriga"/>

Lenin also considered the treaty unsatisfactory, as it forced him to put aside his plans for exporting the Soviet revolution to the West.<ref name="Cienciala"/>

The Belarusian and Ukrainian independence movements saw the treaty as a setback.<ref name=zap>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtnTh3-2Ki8C&q=treaty+of+riga+belarussian+independence&pg=PA75|title=Belarus: at a crossroads in history|author=Jan Zaprudnik|year=1993|publisher=[[Westview Press]]|page=75 | isbn=978-0-8133-1794-6}}</ref> Four million Ukrainians and over a million Belarusians lived within areas ceded to Poland. In one estimate, only 15% of the population was ethnically Polish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dy_z9bjDqUsC&q=treaty+riga+four+million+ukrainians+1921&pg=PA73|page=73|title=A history of the protection of regional cultural minorities in Europe: from the Edict of Nantes to the present day|author=Antony Evelyn Alcock|year=2000|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] | isbn=978-0-312-23556-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Poland – Key to Europe|author=Raymond Leslie Buell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KcfGbrKptoC&q=riga+treaty+recognized&pg=PA79|year=2007|publisher=Read Books|page=79 | isbn=978-1-4067-4564-1}}</ref> The [[Ukrainian People's Republic]], led by [[Symon Petliura]], had been allied with Poland under the [[Treaty of Warsaw (1920)|Treaty of Warsaw]], which was abrogated by the Treaty of Riga.<ref name="Cienciala"/> The new treaty violated Poland's military alliance with the UPR, which had explicitly prohibited a separate peace. Doing so worsened relations between Poland and the Ukrainians who had supported Petliura. The supporters felt that Ukraine had been betrayed by its Polish ally, which would be exploited by the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] and contribute to the growing tensions and [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia|eventual anti-Polish massacres]] in the 1930s and the 1940s. By the end of 1921, most Poland-allied Ukrainian, Belarusian and [[White movement|White Russian]] forces had been annihilated by Soviet forces or had crossed the border into Poland and laid down their arms.

According to the Belarusian historian Andrew Savchenko, Poland's new eastern border was "military indefensible and economically unviable" and a source of growing ethnic tensions, as the resulting minorities in Poland were too large to be ignored or assimilated and too small to win their desired autonomy.<ref name="Savchenko2009"/>

==Further consequences==
[[Image:Rzeczpospolita 1789-1920.png|thumb|left|250px|Poland after the Treaty of Riga with the pre-[[Partitions of Poland|partition]] borders of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] also indicated]]

While the Treaty of Riga led to a two-decade stabilisation of Soviet-Polish relations, conflict was renewed with the [[Soviet invasion of Poland]] during [[World War II]]. The treaty was subsequently overridden after a decision by war's Allied powers to change Poland's borders once again and [[Polish population transfers (1944–46)|transfer the populations]].

In the view of some foreign observers, the treaty's incorporation of significant minority populations into Poland led to seemingly insurmountable challenges, because the newly formed organizations such as [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists|OUN]] engaged in terror and sabotage actions across ethnically mixed areas to inflame conflict in the region.<ref name=palij/><ref name=hup/><ref name="RJC">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGcjAQAAIAAJ&q=OUN+%22sabotage+action%22+1930 |title=Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century |author=Richard J. Crampton, University of Oxford |page=148 |via=Google Books |publisher=Routledge |year=1994 |isbn=978-0415106917}}</ref> Nevertheless, many groups representing national minorities welcomed Piłsudski's return to power in 1926 providing opportunities to play a role in the Polish government.<ref name="PDS">{{cite book |title=Poland, 1918–1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic |author=Peter D. Stachura |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0415343589 |page=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BkKuir9oQYMC&q=groups+representing+ethnic+minorities+welcomed+beginning}}</ref>

[[Image:Treaty of Riga.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Second page of the treaty, Polish version]]

The populations separated from Poland by the new Polish-Soviet border experienced a different fate from their fellow citizens. Ethnic Poles left within Soviet borders were subjected to discrimination and property confiscation.<ref name="Władze">J. M. Kupczak "Stosunek władz bolszewickich do polskiej ludności na Ukrainie (1921–1939)Wrocławskie Studia Wschodnie 1 (1997) Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego , 1997 page 47–62" IPN Bulletin 11(34) 2003</ref> At least 111,000 were summarily executed in [[Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38)|the NKVD operation in 1937/38]], preceding other ethnic repression campaigns perpetrated during World War II, while others were exiled to different regions of the Soviet Union.<ref>[[Marek Jan Chodakiewicz]] (15 January 2011). "Nieopłakane ludobójstwo (Genocide Not Mourned)". Rzeczpospolita. Retrieved 28 April 2011.</ref><ref>Goldman, Wendy Z. (2011). Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia. New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-521-19196-8}}. p. 217.</ref><ref>Snyder, Timothy (27 January 2011). "Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?". The New York Review of Books. p. 1, paragraph #7. Retrieved 12 June 2012.</ref>

Belarusians and Ukrainians, having failed to create their own states, were subjects of repression in the Soviet Union, and even liquidation e.g. [[Executed Renaissance]] or [[persecuted kobzars and bandurists]].<ref>Jones, Adam (2010). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. Taylor & Francis. p. 194. {{ISBN|9780415486187}}.</ref> Belarusians and Ukrainians living on the Polish side of the border were subjected to [[Polonization]]; which contributed to the rise of [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists|Ukrainian nationalist organisations]] and the adoption of [[terrorism|terrorist]] tactics by Ukrainian extremists.<ref name="Prybyla2010">{{cite book|author=Jan S. Prybyla|title=When Angels Wept: The Rebirth and Dismemberment of Poland and Her People in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYDpK1cH76oC&pg=PA46|access-date=16 February 2011|year=2010|publisher=Wheatmark, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60494-325-2|pages=46–}}</ref><ref name="Roshwald2001">{{cite book|author=Aviel Roshwald|title=Ethnic nationalism and the fall of empires: central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, 1914-1923|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ba97xyhIZDcC&pg=PA168|access-date=16 February 2011|year=2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-17893-8|pages=168–}}</ref>

The Soviet Union, although thwarted in 1921, would see its sphere of influence expand as a result of [[World War II]]. After the Soviet Union established its control over the [[People's Republic of Poland]], the [[Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II|Polish-Soviet border]] was moved westwards in 1945 to roughly coincide with the [[Curzon Line]]. This shift was accompanied by large [[Polish population transfers (1944–46)|population transfers]] which led to the expulsion of the Poles living east of the new border, and also [[Operation Vistula|moved most of the Ukrainian minority]] remaining in Poland to the [[Former eastern territories of Germany|former German territories]] that were ceded to Poland in compensation. The unified Belarusian and Ukrainian territories were fully incorporated into the USSR.

However, in 1989, Poland would regain its full sovereignty, and soon afterwards, with the [[fall of the Soviet Union]], [[Belarus]] and [[Ukraine]] would go on to become independent nations.

== See also ==
* [[Polish minority in the Soviet Union]]
* [[Belarusian minority in Poland]]
* [[Ukrainian minority in Poland]]
* [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]]
* [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]]
* [[Aftermath of the Polish-Soviet War]]
* [[Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38)]]
* [[Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty]]
* [[Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty]]
* [[Treaty of Tartu (Estonia–Russia)]]
* [[Treaty of Tartu (Finland–Russia)]]

==Notes==
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==Further reading==
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* Dąbrowski, Stanisław. "The Peace Treaty of Riga." ''The Polish Review'' (1960) 5#1: 3–34. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776284 Online]
* [[Norman Davies|Davies, Norman]], ''White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919–20'', Pimlico, 2003, {{ISBN|0712606947}}. (First edition: New York, St. Martin's Press, inc., 1972.)
* Materski, Wojciech. "The Second Polish Republic in Soviet Foreign Policy (1918–1939)." ''Polish Review'' 45.3 (2000): 331–345. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25779203 online]
* ''Traktat ryski 1921 roku po 75 latach'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 1998, {{ISBN|8323109745}} (Chapter summaries in English)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928215919/http://dziedzictwo.polska.pl/katalog/skarb,Traktat_pokojowy_polsko-sowiecki_w_Rydze_z_dnia_18_III_1921_roku,gid,116264,cid,1128.htm?sh=1 Photocopies of the Polish version of the Treaty.] Dziedzictwo.polska.pl

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