The Rebirth of Poland. Polish Application of Self Determination at the End of the First World War
The Rebirth of Poland. Polish Application of Self Determination at the End of the First World War

Summary/Abstract: After the end of the first world war Versailles’ peace negotiations defined the new settlement of Central-Eastern Europe on the principle of self-determination. The application of this concept, anyway, was not easy and peaceful and was many times entrusted to the factual conditions of the disputed regions and to conditions of the States claiming them. In the case of Poland, the new State was reshaped according to the strange combination of diplomacy and conflicts, as the definitive extension of the State depended on the fate of the campaigns in which Polish troops were involved after the Great War. Poland, thus, showed the particular situation of Central-Eastern Europe, where many little conflicts accompanied the development of diplomatic negotiations.

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