Russia's retreat from Poland, 1920 : from permanent revolution to peaceful coexistence

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv The Battle of Warsaw as Witnessed by the Participants....Pages 9-21 Soviet Policies and Problems Prior to Poland’s Invasion of the Ukraine....Pages 22-35 Leonid Krasin and the Soviet Attempt to Achieve a Detente....Pages 36-52 Karl Radek and Soviet War Aims: National Defence and Early Peace....Pages 53-69 Leon Trotsky and the Soviet Military Response to Poland’s Invasion....Pages 70-90 George Chicherin and the Soviet Response to Lord Curzon’s Note....Pages 91-109 Lenin and the Second Comintern Congress: Revolution or Retreat?....Pages 110-124 M. N. Tukhachevsky and the Decision to Invade Poland....Pages 125-149 Leo Kamenev, Lloyd George and the Attempt to Arrange an Armistice....Pages 150-180 Felix Dzerzhinsky, the Polrevkom and the Tactics of Political War....Pages 181-200 Sergei S. Kamenev, Glavkom and the Struggle Over Red Army Strategy....Pages 201-217 The Lenin—Stalin Telegrams and Budenny’s Failure to Aid Tukhachevsky....Pages 218-250 Back Matter....Pages 299-348 An examination of Polish popular resistance, the Red Army's strategy, problems facing the Soviet Republic internally, British diplomatic efforts at ending the war and the transition Soviet policy was undergoing, from the concept of Permanent Revolution to that of Peaceful Coexistence.