The Soviet-Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism

＂An examination of the Bolshevik defeat to Poland in the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20) and the rise of the repressive, highly industrialised Stalinist system it encouraged＂--

Peter Whitewood is Senior Lecturer of History at York St. John University, UK. He is the author of The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military (2015) and the co-editor, along with Lara Douds and James Harris, of The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2020).