Piłsudski-Petlura Alliance: An crucial event in the past of Polish-Ukrainian relations.
On 22 April 1920, an agreement was signed in Warsaw between the Republic of Poland and the Ukrainian People's Republic, known as “Soyusz Piłsudski-Petlura”. This agreement was an crucial minute in Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Content of the Agreement
The full text of the agreement is available in Polish and Ukrainian:
- ELADU UA TEXT (link to text in Ukrainian)
- ENGLAD TEXT (link to text in Polish)
Anniversary conference
On April 21, 2018, the east European Studies of the University of Warsaw organized an global conference on the occasion of the 98th anniversary of signing the contract. Conference entitled “Soyusz Piłsudski-Petlura. A look after 98 years" was initiated by the Polish-Ukrainian Partnership Forum at the Ministry of abroad Affairs, the east European Studies of the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Political Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The Importance of Alliance
The alliance of Marshal Piłsudski with Ataman Petlura was an crucial example of affirmative Polish-Ukrainian relations. The conference held on the anniversary of the signing of the agreement was an crucial event that contributed to the further improvement of these relations.
Symon Petlura: Leader of Independent Ukraine
The book “Simon Petlura: Leader of the Independent Ukraine” is the consequence of cooperation between the survey of east Europe and the Institute of National Memory. The technological editor of the volume is Dr. Mirosław Szumiło from the Bureau of Historical investigation of the Institute of National Memory. The publication was published as part of the publication series "Working of the Polish-Ukrainian Commission for the survey of common Relations from 1917 to 1921".
The book presents the biography of Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and military who played a key function in the fight for Ukraine's independence. Petlura was the leader of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1919 to 1921. The book besides discusses Polish-Ukrainian relations during the period erstwhile Petlura was the head of the Ukrainian People's Republic. The publication is an crucial origin of cognition about Ukrainian past and Polish-Ukrainian relations in the first half of the 20th century.
Symon Petlura played a leading function in the Ukrainian National Revolution from 1917 to 1921 and was then the leader of Ukrainian political emigration. He's definitely a symbol of independence. However, many myths and stereotypes grew around him. Their origin was primarily russian propaganda, which for more than 70 years fought fiercely Petlura and "petlurists" as a synonym for counter-revolution and selling out to "Polish intervention". Thus, after regaining independency in 1991, his character struggled to penetrate the decks of negative propaganda to take the right place in the historical memory of Ukrainians. The intent of this publication is to familiarise readers with selected issues concerning the activities of Symon Petlura as leader of the Ukrainian People's Republic during the conflict for independency and emigration, the circumstances of his tragic death and the killer's trial, and the process of shaping his image in the eyes of Ukrainians from the revolution to modern times. The volume presented was created as part of the work of the Polish-Ukrainian Historians Committee for investigation on common Relations from 1917 to 1921. According to the rules adopted in the Commission publications, the volume is bilingual.
