COSSACKS AND THE RED ARMY'S MARCH ON POLAND IN 1920

Authors

  • Andrey V. Venkov

Abstract

The aim of this work is to show the way the Cossacks, being the main source of manpower of
anti-Bolshevik troops in southern Russia during the civil war, have turned out to be the striking
force of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet-Polish war. Another aspect is how the participation of the
Cossacks in the Red army's march on Poland in 1920 affected its results. The work applied
statistical, comparative and anthropological methods and studied the plans of the Bolshevik
leadership, the public sentiments of the Cossacks, their commanders and the population of the
terrains of attack. The study showed that the aggravation of Soviet-Polish relations coincided
with the surrender of many Cossacks to the Bolsheviks, who enlisted them in the Red army and
sent them to fight with the Poles. The Cossacks made the red cavalry the shock force of the
army, but their behavior turned the population of Galicia and Poland against the Bolsheviks. The
Cossacks did not want to cross the border and never shared the ideas of the world revolution.
The reasons for the defeat of the Red Army in 1920, in addition to the known reluctance of a
significant part of the red cavalry to cross the border, was also in the negative attitude of the
local population to the 'Cossack invasion'.

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Published

2021-01-06

How to Cite

Andrey V. Venkov. (2021). COSSACKS AND THE RED ARMY’S MARCH ON POLAND IN 1920. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 17(10), 2606-2617. Retrieved from https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/5151