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The online lecture “The Riga Peace Treaty of the year 1921 and the Russia-Poland relations 100 years later” by Maria Pavlova took place on the platform of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.

Exactly a century ago, on March 18, 1921, in Riga there was signed the peace treaty, which ended the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1920 and established the eastern border of Poland. According to historians, the Riga Peace Treaty created the basis for stabilization of the post-war situation throughout Eastern Europe and was supposed to become a starting point in the development of bilateral relations between Warsaw and Moscow in the new era. However, Russia-Poland relations over the past 100 years can only be described as “bad” or “very bad”. What is the basis of this hostility, and is it mutual? The lecturer talked about the perception of the events in the general history of the 20th century in modern society of Poland, about the historical politics and about the complex issues of the bilateral relations.