1919 Polish coup?

What if the coup of 1919 was successful and the National Democrats were able to establish rule over the Poles? Without Pilsudski how will this affect the Polish-Soviet War? Will there be a Polish Civil War?
 
What if the coup of 1919 was successful and the National Democrats were able to establish rule over the Poles? Without Pilsudski how will this affect the Polish-Soviet War? Will there be a Polish Civil War?

A coup whose main forces were a compagny of cadets and a unit from the National Guard isn't really a coup, it was only a mascarade who last 8 hours and the rebels, even the leaders, were set free when the army disarmed them.
 

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A coup whose main forces were a compagny of cadets and a unit from the National Guard isn't really a coup, it was only a mascarade who last 8 hours and the rebels, even the leaders, were set free when the army disarmed them.

Coups have succeeded with the use of much less force. While the coup happend before any elections, it could have easily been legalised by them, as by the time the area under Warsaw's control had very little minorities, and the nationalists were very popular. January 1919 was still a time when the various states in central Europe was forming, most of the population didn't care what happend in the capital and would follow however was in charge. The coup had potential to succeed, it was just very poorly organised.
 
"Very poorly" is an understatement - first of all the coupers had no one to put as a head of government. They were - probably - trying to take over Warsaw and then wait for triumphal coming back of Roman Dmowski. Whom they didn't consult at all. And besides what can be said when coupers coming to Belweder to arrest Josef Pilsudzki let themslves be arrested themselves without resisting.
 
"Very poorly" is an understatement - first of all the coupers had no one to put as a head of government. They were - probably - trying to take over Warsaw and then wait for triumphal coming back of Roman Dmowski. Whom they didn't consult at all. And besides what can be said when coupers coming to Belweder to arrest Josef Pilsudzki let themslves be arrested themselves without resisting.
I was wondering about that, I mean without Pilsudski Poland loses it best politician. And I didn't know about the coup. It had a really bad wiki article.
 
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