As it said in the title.
While the borderlands between the two countries where the immediate reason the war happened both sides did, at one point or another, exhibit wider ambitions and hoped for a decisive victory to allow them to ennact them. The USSR had projects of turning Poland into a puppet state and some at last spoke of using it as a stating point to further spread Communism through the strenght of the Red army while the Poles did consider, with more or less seriousness, use a potential decisive victory against the Russians to set the stage for the long term establishment of Belarusian and Ukrainian states that would be under Warsaw's influence to one degree or another. The fact that both Minsk and Kiev were under Polish occupation at one point or another does show that at least some ambitions beyond the borderlands might have been possible to realise too...
So my question would be, how well could Poland do in an optimal scenario for it? Pilsudski's dreams of an Intermarium federation where probably pushing it but could it have emerged from the conflict at the head of sizable sphere of influence that would have made it the premier power of the region or would simply push the Polish border further east would have been all that was achievable? How about events elsewhere? How would the Russian Civil War and other conflicts of the time have been affected?
While the borderlands between the two countries where the immediate reason the war happened both sides did, at one point or another, exhibit wider ambitions and hoped for a decisive victory to allow them to ennact them. The USSR had projects of turning Poland into a puppet state and some at last spoke of using it as a stating point to further spread Communism through the strenght of the Red army while the Poles did consider, with more or less seriousness, use a potential decisive victory against the Russians to set the stage for the long term establishment of Belarusian and Ukrainian states that would be under Warsaw's influence to one degree or another. The fact that both Minsk and Kiev were under Polish occupation at one point or another does show that at least some ambitions beyond the borderlands might have been possible to realise too...
So my question would be, how well could Poland do in an optimal scenario for it? Pilsudski's dreams of an Intermarium federation where probably pushing it but could it have emerged from the conflict at the head of sizable sphere of influence that would have made it the premier power of the region or would simply push the Polish border further east would have been all that was achievable? How about events elsewhere? How would the Russian Civil War and other conflicts of the time have been affected?
