Joseph Pilsudski Interview by Dmitry Merezhkovsky, 1921. Translated from the Russian by Harriet E Kennedy B.A. London & Edinburgh, Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd 1921. Piłsudski said: "Poland can have nothing to do with the restoration of old Russia. Anything rather than that–even Bolshevism."
"Having burst through the front, Budyonny's cavalry would devastate the enemy's rear – burning, killing and looting as they went. These Red cavalrymen inspired an almost numbing sense of fear in their opponents [...] the very names Budyonny and Cossack terrified the Ukrainian population, and they moved into a state of neutrality or even hostility toward Petliura and the Poles..." from Watt, Richard (1979). Bitter Glory: Poland and its Fate 1918–1939. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-671-22625-1.
Руски и пољски историчари побједу настоје приписати или Пољској или совјетским републикама. Outside assessments vary, mostly between calling the result a Polish victory and inconclusive. Lenin in his secret report to the 9th Conference of the Bolshevik Party on September 20, 1920, called the outcome of the war "In a word, a gigantic, unheard-of defeat" (види Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich (1. 5. 1999). The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive. Yale University Press. стр. 106. ISBN978-0-300-07662-2.
"Although the Polish premier and many of his associates sincerely wanted peace, other important Polish leaders did not. Josef Pilsudski, chief of state and creator of Polish army, was foremost among the latter. Pilsudski hoped to build not merely a Polish nation state but a greater federation of peoples under the aegis of Poland, which would replace Russia as the great power of Eastern Europe. Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine were all to be included. His plan called for a truncated and vastly reduced Russia, a plan that excluded negotiations prior to military victory." Debo, Richard K. (1992). Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921. McGill-Queen's Press. стр. 59. ISBN978-0-7735-0828-6.
"Pilsudski's program for a federation of independent states centered on Poland; in opposing the imperial power of both Russia and Germany it was in many ways a throwback to the romantic Mazzinian nationalism of Young Poland in the early nineteenth century. But his slow consolidation of dictatorial power betrayed the democratic substance of those earlier visions of national revolution as the path to human liberation" Billington, James H. (1998). Fire in the Minds of Men. Transaction Publishers. стр. 432. ISBN978-0-7658-0471-6.
"Pilsudski dreamed of drawing all the nations situated between Germany and Russia into an enormous federation in which Poland, by virtue of its size, would be the leader, while Dmowski wanted to see a unitary Polish state, in which other Slav peoples would become assimilated." Paczkowski, Andrzej (2003). The Spring Will Be Ours: Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom. Penn State Press. стр. 10. ISBN978-0-271-02308-3.
Балязин, Вольдемар Николаевич (2007). Неофициальная история России [The Unofficial History of Russia] (на језику: руски). Olma Media Group. стр. 595. ISBN978-5-373-01229-4. Приступљено 9. 10. 2010.
Davies, Norman (2005). God's Playground: A History of Poland. Columbia University Press. ISBN978-0-231-12819-3. „Notwithstanding the hostility of the Zionists, and of extreme Polish nationalists (who succeeded at the height of the Battle of Warsaw in persuading the authorities to intern all Jewish volunteers as potential sub-versionists), the majority of established Jewish leaders decided to co-operate with the government.”
Leslie, Roy Francis (1983). The History of Poland Since 1863. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-27501-9. „Lithuanian nationalism was fundamentally anti-Polish in character and Polish–Lithuanian relations deteriorated still further in August 1919 as a result of an attempted coup by the Polish Military Organization (POW) aimed at placing a pro-Polish government in power at Kaunas (Kovno).”
Janusz Cisek, Kosciuszko, We Are Here: American Pilots of the Kosciuszko Squadron in Defense of Poland, 1919–1921, McFarland & Company. 2002. ISBN978-0-7864-1240-2. стр. Google Print.
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See for instance Russo-Polish War in Encyclopædia Britannica "The conflict began when the Polish head of state Józef Piłsudski formed an alliance with the Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petlyura (21 April 1920) and their combined forces began to overrun Ukraine, occupying Kiev on 7 May."
Józef Pilsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman, the first chief of state (1918–22) of the newly independent Poland established in November 1918. (Józef Pilsudski in Encyclopædia Britannica) Released in Nov. 1918, [Pilsudski] returned to Warsaw, assumed command of the Polish armies, and proclaimed an independent Polish republic, which he headed. (Piłsudski, JosephАрхивирано 2010-04-20 на сајту Wayback Machine in Columbia Encyclopedia)
Senn, Alfred Erich (септембар 1962). „The Formation of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, 1918-1921”. Slavic Review. 21 (3): 500—507. JSTOR3000451. S2CID156378406. doi:10.2307/3000451.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза) Alfred Erich Senn, Lietuvos valstybes... p. 163: '"If the Poles didn't stop the Soviet attack, Lithuania would fell to the Soviets... Polish victory costs the Lithuanians the city of Vilnius, but saved Lithuania itself." Antanas Ruksa, Kovos del Lietuvos nepriklausomybes, t. 3, p. 417: "In summer 1920 Russia was working on a communist revolution in Lithuania... From this disaster Lithuania was saved by the miracle at Vistula." Jonas Rudokas, Józef Piłsudski – wróg niepodległości Litwy czy jej wybawca?Архивирано 2016-10-11 на сајту Wayback Machine (Polish translation of a Lithuanian article) "Veidas", 25 08 2005: [Piłsudski] "defended both Poland and Lithuania from Soviet domination"
(језик: пољски) Paweł Wroński, "Sensacyjne odkrycie: Nie było cudu nad Wisłą" ("A Remarkable Discovery: There Was No Miracle at the Vistula"), Gazeta Wyborcza, wiadomosci.gazeta.pl.
Hardzienka, Aleh; Gapova, Elena (translator) (2006). „Matejczuk, Vera (1896–1981)”. Ур.: de Haan, Francisca; Daskalova, Krassimira; Loutfi, Anna. Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press. стр. 316—318. ISBN978-9-637-32639-4 — преко Project MUSE. [Претплата неопходна (помоћ)].
Senn, Alfred Erich (септембар 1962). „The Formation of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, 1918-1921”. Slavic Review. 21 (3): 500—507. JSTOR3000451. S2CID156378406. doi:10.2307/3000451.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза) Alfred Erich Senn, Lietuvos valstybes... p. 163: '"If the Poles didn't stop the Soviet attack, Lithuania would fell to the Soviets... Polish victory costs the Lithuanians the city of Vilnius, but saved Lithuania itself." Antanas Ruksa, Kovos del Lietuvos nepriklausomybes, t. 3, p. 417: "In summer 1920 Russia was working on a communist revolution in Lithuania... From this disaster Lithuania was saved by the miracle at Vistula." Jonas Rudokas, Józef Piłsudski – wróg niepodległości Litwy czy jej wybawca?Архивирано 2016-10-11 на сајту Wayback Machine (Polish translation of a Lithuanian article) "Veidas", 25 08 2005: [Piłsudski] "defended both Poland and Lithuania from Soviet domination"
At a closed meeting of the 9th Conference of the Russian Communist Party on 22 September 1920, Lenin said, "We confronted the question: whether [...] to take advantage of the enthusiasm in our army and the advantage which we enjoyed to sovietize Poland... the defensive war against imperialism was over, we won it... We could and should take advantage of the military situation to begin an offensive war... we should poke about with bayonets to see whether the socialist revolution of the proletariat had not ripened in Poland... that somewhere near Warsaw lies not [only] the center of the Polish bourgeois government and the republic of capital, but the center of the whole contemporary system of international imperialism, and that circumstances enabled us to shake that system, and to conduct politics not in Poland but in Germany and England. In this manner, in Germany and England we created a completely new zone of proletarian revolution against global imperialism... By destroying the Polish army we are destroying the Versailles Treaty on which nowadays the entire system of international relations is based.....Had Poland become Soviet....the Versailles Treaty ...and with it the whole international system arising from the victories over Germany, would have been destroyed." English translation quoted from Richard Pipes, Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, New York, 1993, pp.181–182, with some stylistic modification in par 3, line 3, by A. M. Cienciala. This document was first published in a Russian historical periodical, Istoricheskii Arkhiv, vol. I, no. 1., Moscow,1992 and is cited through „The Rebirth of Poland”. Приступљено 2. 6. 2006.Архивирано на сајту Wayback Machine (15. мај 2013). University of Kansas, lecture notes by professor Anna M. Cienciala, 2004..
One month before his death, Pilsudski told his aide: "My life is lost. I failed to create a Ukraine free from the Russians" Oleksa Pidlutskyi, Postati XX stolittia, (Figures of the 20th century). Pidlut︠s︡ʹkyĭ, Oleksa (2004). „Józef Piłsudski: The Chief who Created Himself a State”. Postati XX stolitti͡a: Non grata. Kiev. ISBN978-966-8290-01-5. LCCN2004440333. reprinted in Zerkalo Nedeli(the Mirror Weekly), Kiev, 3–9 February 2001.
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Мірановіч (Mironovich), Яўген (Evgeniy) (14. 5. 2000). Партызаны ці тэрарысты [Guerrillas or terrorists?]. Niva. Białystok, Poland. Приступљено 23. 4. 2017.
Туронок (Turonok), Юрий (Yuri) (2011). Непокорная Вера [Untamed Faith (Vera)]. Pawet. Lida, Belarus. Архивирано из оригинала 6. 8. 2016. г. Приступљено 21. 4. 2017.
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Senn, Alfred Erich (септембар 1962). „The Formation of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, 1918-1921”. Slavic Review. 21 (3): 500—507. JSTOR3000451. S2CID156378406. doi:10.2307/3000451.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза) Alfred Erich Senn, Lietuvos valstybes... p. 163: '"If the Poles didn't stop the Soviet attack, Lithuania would fell to the Soviets... Polish victory costs the Lithuanians the city of Vilnius, but saved Lithuania itself." Antanas Ruksa, Kovos del Lietuvos nepriklausomybes, t. 3, p. 417: "In summer 1920 Russia was working on a communist revolution in Lithuania... From this disaster Lithuania was saved by the miracle at Vistula." Jonas Rudokas, Józef Piłsudski – wróg niepodległości Litwy czy jej wybawca?Архивирано 2016-10-11 на сајту Wayback Machine (Polish translation of a Lithuanian article) "Veidas", 25 08 2005: [Piłsudski] "defended both Poland and Lithuania from Soviet domination"
Józef Pilsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman, the first chief of state (1918–22) of the newly independent Poland established in November 1918. (Józef Pilsudski in Encyclopædia Britannica) Released in Nov. 1918, [Pilsudski] returned to Warsaw, assumed command of the Polish armies, and proclaimed an independent Polish republic, which he headed. (Piłsudski, JosephАрхивирано 2010-04-20 на сајту Wayback Machine in Columbia Encyclopedia)
Senn, Alfred Erich (септембар 1962). „The Formation of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, 1918-1921”. Slavic Review. 21 (3): 500—507. JSTOR3000451. S2CID156378406. doi:10.2307/3000451.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза) Alfred Erich Senn, Lietuvos valstybes... p. 163: '"If the Poles didn't stop the Soviet attack, Lithuania would fell to the Soviets... Polish victory costs the Lithuanians the city of Vilnius, but saved Lithuania itself." Antanas Ruksa, Kovos del Lietuvos nepriklausomybes, t. 3, p. 417: "In summer 1920 Russia was working on a communist revolution in Lithuania... From this disaster Lithuania was saved by the miracle at Vistula." Jonas Rudokas, Józef Piłsudski – wróg niepodległości Litwy czy jej wybawca?Архивирано 2016-10-11 на сајту Wayback Machine (Polish translation of a Lithuanian article) "Veidas", 25 08 2005: [Piłsudski] "defended both Poland and Lithuania from Soviet domination"
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Jan Bury, Polish Codebreaking During the Russo-Polish War of 1919–1920, [1]
Józef Pilsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman, the first chief of state (1918–22) of the newly independent Poland established in November 1918. (Józef Pilsudski in Encyclopædia Britannica) Released in Nov. 1918, [Pilsudski] returned to Warsaw, assumed command of the Polish armies, and proclaimed an independent Polish republic, which he headed. (Piłsudski, JosephАрхивирано 2010-04-20 на сајту Wayback Machine in Columbia Encyclopedia)
At a closed meeting of the 9th Conference of the Russian Communist Party on 22 September 1920, Lenin said, "We confronted the question: whether [...] to take advantage of the enthusiasm in our army and the advantage which we enjoyed to sovietize Poland... the defensive war against imperialism was over, we won it... We could and should take advantage of the military situation to begin an offensive war... we should poke about with bayonets to see whether the socialist revolution of the proletariat had not ripened in Poland... that somewhere near Warsaw lies not [only] the center of the Polish bourgeois government and the republic of capital, but the center of the whole contemporary system of international imperialism, and that circumstances enabled us to shake that system, and to conduct politics not in Poland but in Germany and England. In this manner, in Germany and England we created a completely new zone of proletarian revolution against global imperialism... By destroying the Polish army we are destroying the Versailles Treaty on which nowadays the entire system of international relations is based.....Had Poland become Soviet....the Versailles Treaty ...and with it the whole international system arising from the victories over Germany, would have been destroyed." English translation quoted from Richard Pipes, Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, New York, 1993, pp.181–182, with some stylistic modification in par 3, line 3, by A. M. Cienciala. This document was first published in a Russian historical periodical, Istoricheskii Arkhiv, vol. I, no. 1., Moscow,1992 and is cited through „The Rebirth of Poland”. Приступљено 2. 6. 2006.Архивирано на сајту Wayback Machine (15. мај 2013). University of Kansas, lecture notes by professor Anna M. Cienciala, 2004..
Туронок (Turonok), Юрий (Yuri) (2011). Непокорная Вера [Untamed Faith (Vera)]. Pawet. Lida, Belarus. Архивирано из оригинала 6. 8. 2016. г. Приступљено 21. 4. 2017.
Senn, Alfred Erich (септембар 1962). „The Formation of the Lithuanian Foreign Office, 1918-1921”. Slavic Review. 21 (3): 500—507. JSTOR3000451. S2CID156378406. doi:10.2307/3000451.CS1 одржавање: Формат датума (веза) Alfred Erich Senn, Lietuvos valstybes... p. 163: '"If the Poles didn't stop the Soviet attack, Lithuania would fell to the Soviets... Polish victory costs the Lithuanians the city of Vilnius, but saved Lithuania itself." Antanas Ruksa, Kovos del Lietuvos nepriklausomybes, t. 3, p. 417: "In summer 1920 Russia was working on a communist revolution in Lithuania... From this disaster Lithuania was saved by the miracle at Vistula." Jonas Rudokas, Józef Piłsudski – wróg niepodległości Litwy czy jej wybawca?Архивирано 2016-10-11 на сајту Wayback Machine (Polish translation of a Lithuanian article) "Veidas", 25 08 2005: [Piłsudski] "defended both Poland and Lithuania from Soviet domination"