The Peace of Riga was the treaty that ended the Polish-Soviet War, signed in the Latvian capital between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other. After the Polish army had advanced to Kyiv and then been driven back almost to Warsaw, and Poland had won the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, the two sides agreed to a border that left large areas of western Ukraine and western Belarus under Polish rule, east of the Curzon Line. Poland abandoned the idea of a federation with an independent Ukraine and gave up Kyiv. The frontier remained in force until it was swept away by the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.
Before and after
- from February 1921 to April 1921February Uprising
- 22 February 1921Birth of Jean-Bedel Bokassa
- from 25 February 1921 to 1 January 1991Georgian SSR
- from 1 March 1921 to 18 March 1921Kronstadt rebellion
- 18 March 1921Peace of Riga
- 2 May 1921Birth of Satyajit Ray
- 21 May 1921Birth of Andrei Sakharov
- 8 June 1921Birth of Suharto
- 10 June 1921Birth of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
More in Wars, politics & history
- 1917Russian Revolution
- from 25 October 1917 to 26 October 1917October Revolution
- from 7 November 1917 to 25 October 1922Russian Civil War
- 23 August 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- from 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940Winter War
- from 22 June 1941 to 5 December 1941Operation Barbarossa
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