WARSAW IN 1914

• Authors: Dunin-Wasowicz K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

On the eve of the WW I Warsaw was the seat of the General Governor of the so-called Vistulaland, part of the Russian Empire. Out of its population totalling 884 554 (on 1 January 1914), about 260 000 persons left Warsaw in the summer and autumn of 1914 due to the mobilisation and the first evacuation tide, but the majority - ca. 200 000 - returned already in November 1914. On the other hand, refugees from terrains occupied by the Germans flooded in. The next great evacuation tide took place in the spring of 1915. The most numerous social group in Warsaw was the working class (about 400 000). A large group - from 80 000 to 100 000 - was composed of the professional intelligentsia - Poles or assimilated Jews and in 1914 Russians. The most important political events for the Poles was the declaration of Grand Duke Nicholas, announced on 14 August. Greatest significance was attached to the establishment on 5 November of the National Polish Committee (KPN), composed of representatives of the National Democracy and the Real Policy Party. The impact of KPN and pro-Russian sympathies were by no means unambiguous. Pro-independence groups made their appearance; they also issued numerous anti-Russian leaflets signed primarily by the Polish Socialist Party-Revolutionary Faction and the National Workers' Union. The activity of the pro-independence camp in Warsaw included also numerous meetings of the progressive intelligentsia.

Keywords

EN

WARSAW IN 1914; WORLD WAR I

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Dzieje Najnowsze
• Year: 2004
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 55-62
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dunin-Wasowicz K.

• K. Dunin-Wasowicz, Instytut Historii PAN, ul. Rynek Starego Miasta 29-31, 00-272 Warszawa, Poland.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA0027613