Independent Poland restored after 123 years of partition, emerging from the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires at the end of World War I, and consolidating its borders through the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) and the Silesian Uprisings.
Invaded and partitioned by Nazi Germany (1 September 1939) and the Soviet Union (17 September 1939) under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, ending the interwar state; a government-in-exile continued abroad.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Second Polish Republic — the shape you scrub through changes in 1918 · 1934.
Definitive account of the interwar Second Republic.
Focused history of the 1919-1920 Polish-Soviet War that shaped the Republic's eastern borders.