Soviet westward offensive of 1920

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The Soviet westward offensive of 1920 was a major Red Army campaign during the Polish–Soviet War aimed at pushing into Central Europe and spreading the Bolshevik revolution westward.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf campaign
military offensive
aim to defeat the Second Polish Republic
to link up with revolutionary movements in Germany
to push the Bolshevik revolution westward into Central Europe
belligerent Polish Army
Red Army
commander Alexander Yegorov
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
conflict Polish–Soviet War
conflictType offensive campaign
consequence stabilization of the Polish–Soviet frontier before the Treaty of Riga
weakening of Soviet capacity to continue large-scale operations in Poland
countryInvolved Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Second Polish Republic
describedIn Polish military historiography
Soviet military historiography
endTime 1920-08
followedBy Polish counteroffensive of 1920
linked to: Polish–Soviet War
front Southwestern Front (Red Army)
Western Front (Red Army)
hasPart Kiev offensive (Soviet counteroffensive, 1920)
Minsk offensive (1920)
advance toward Warsaw
operations on the Northern Front
operations on the Southwestern Front
historicalPeriod interwar period
influencedBy Bolshevik ideology of world revolution
involves armored trains
cavalry operations
infantry offensives
location Belorussia
Eastern Europe
Ukraine
territory of the Second Polish Republic
militaryBranch Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
linked to: Red Army
opponent Polish Armed Forces
opposedBy Allied military missions in Poland
partOf Polish–Soviet War
Soviet attempts to export the Bolshevik revolution
pointInTime 1920
politicalLeader Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
precededBy Polish Kiev offensive (1920)
result Polish victory
halt of Soviet advance at the Battle of Warsaw
retreat of Red Army forces from central Poland
significantEvent Red Army advance to the Vistula River
capture of Minsk by the Red Army in 1920
startTime 1920-05

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Battle of Warsaw (1920) hasCause Soviet westward offensive of 1920
Soviet Western Front engagedInBattle Soviet offensive toward Warsaw (1920)
linked to: Soviet westward offensive of 1920