Ze wschodniej polityki Francji w okresie rokowań pokojowych Polski z bolszewikami w drugiej połowie 1920 r. i na początku 1921 r.
From France’s Eastern Policy during Poland’s Peace Negotiations with the Bolsheviks in the Second Half of 1920 and Early 1921

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with French policy towards Poland and Bolshevik and ‘White’ Russia. The issues are presented in the context of the Polish-Soviet peace negotiations taking place first in Minsk and then Riga, and the peace signed in March 1921. The article aims to show the French position towards these events and present the French conception of policy in Eastern Europe, also in the context of attempts to neutralise Germany and secure against a possible German threat. The French kept their distance from the Polish-Soviet peace negotia- tions and the signed peace in Riga but expected the Bolsheviks’ attack against Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic states in the spring of 1921. Accordingly, they devised plans for material and financial support for these countries. All along, France hoped for the fall of the Bolshevik government. Parallel to these actions, France was preparing to conclude alliance agreements with Central European states, including Poland.

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