Third Russia seeks allies: views of Russian anti-Bolshevik democrats on the national question during the Soviet-Polish war

The article is devoted to the national question in the publicism of the Russian Political Committee (RPC), which united Russian republican emigrants in Poland. The article analyzes articles from the newspaper «Svoboda», where the authors spoke about the relationship with the anti-Bolshevik movements of non-Russian peoples. Separately, the discourse of Russian-Polish rapprochement, promoted by the RPC and its leader B.V. Savinkov, is covered. Recognizing the mistakes of the White movement, the RPC saw a federation as the preferred form of organizing the Russian space. The Polish public reacted to the activities of the RPC in different ways: among Polish intellectuals there were both Russophiles, waiting for the imminent «liberation of Russia», and Russophobes, suspecting Savinkovs group of imperialism. The conclusion of a preliminary truce between the RSFSR and Poland served as a temporary cooperation of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian forces, faced with the threat of losing Polish support.