WARSAW TREATY OF 1920 BETWEEN UKRAINE AND POLAND: HISTORY OF SIGNING AND LESSONS FOR TODAY
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The purpose of the paper is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of key factors and circumstances which caused the evolution of the Ukrainian-Polish relations in 1919 – 1921 from military and political confrontation to partnership, as well as to determine the reasons for failure of Warsaw Treaty of 1920. The methodology of the research includes historical method, system approach, objectivity, the use of general research methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special historical methods (historical and genetic, historical and typological, historical and systemic ones). The scientific novelty consists in comprehensive research of the internal political situation in the Ukrainian People's Republic and Poland before signing the Treaty of Warsaw on April 21–24, 1920, elucidation of external factors that favoured signing of the Ukrainian-Polish Allied Treaty, identifying lessons from the failure of the Allied Treaty of 1920 for contemporary Polish relations. The Conclusions. The writers are convinced that during the period of concluding World War I and restructuring the world geopolitical space, the UPR and Rzeczpospolita Polska II were to establish allied relations in order to strengthen their resumed statehood and ensure security in the Baltic-Black Sea region. However, signing of the Treaty of Warsaw, due to a number of internal and external factors, failed to ensure stable Ukrainian-Polish interaction, which had an extremely negative impact on the prospect of preserving state independence of the UPR and Ukrainian-Polish partnership.
Key words: the UPR of the Directory period, Rzeczpospolita Polska II, the Treaty of Warsaw, allied relations.
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