Why Ukraine and Poland Went to War in 1919? (Polish-Ukrainian War Documentary)

Lviv or Lwów are two names for the same city that was known as Lemberg until 1919. The Poles considered it as one of their most important cultural and political centers, the Ukrainians too. And so, in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the question of who would control this city led to conflict: The Polish-Ukrainian War. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon:   Become a member:   » OUR PODCAST  - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show.   » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link)   » SOURCES Smele, Jonathan. The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars 1916-1926 (London: Hurst, 2015). Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Civil War (New York: Pegasus Books, 2005). Leonhard, Jörn. Der überforderte Frieden. Versailles und die Welt 1918-1923 (CH Beck, 2018). Macmillan, Margaret. The Peacemakers: Six Months That Changed the World (London: John Murray, 2001) Dudko, Oksana: Polish-Ukrainian Conflict over Eastern Galicia , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08 Kutschabsky, W. Die Westukraine im Kampfe mit Polen und dem Bolschewismus in den Jahren 1918–1923 (Berlin, 1934) Davies, Norman. White Eagle Red Star (Random House, 2003 (1972)) Sharp, Alan. The Versailles Settlement. Peacemaking and the First World War, 1919-1923 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) Judson, Pieter. The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Belknap Press, 2016) Böhler, Jochen. Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2019) Timothy Snyder. The Reconstruction of Nations. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) » MORE THE GREAT WAR Website:   Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: Reddit: htpps://   » OTHER PROJECTS  16 DAYS IN BERLIN:   »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: Maps: Daniel Kogosov () Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig   Channel Design: Alexander Clark Original Logo: David van Stephold   Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2020