THE ANTI-RUSSIAN ORIENTATION IN 1914

• Authors: Suleja W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The anti-Russian orientation was shaped in Galicia at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. The irredentist core of the orientation was initially composed of emigrants from the Kingdom of Poland, mainly of socialist provenance; soon, however, it increased due to access by the opponents of the current political line represented by the National League. The second core of the anti-Russian segment were the adherents of transforming the dualistic Habsburg monarchy into an Austro-Polish-Hungarian triad. Following the outbreak of the war, an attempt at continuing independent political activity, made by the irredentists together with the establishment of the Polish National Organisation, finally ended with the inclusion of that structure into the Cracow Committee (22 November 1914 ). The anti-Russian orientation was never uniform. After all, it was composed of forces which tried to realise different programmes whose contents were determined by people of incompatible experiences, not merely political. In 1914 the Galician subjects of Franz Joseph as well as the emigrants from the Kingdom of Poland found themselves in the same camp. They shared a common enemy and the belief that they were acting in the interest of the Polish cause. Despite recurring conflicts, the anti-Russian orientation survived in this form until August 1915.

Keywords

EN

ANTI-RUSSIAN ORIENTATION (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: 43-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Suleja W.

• W. Suleja, Uniwersytet Zielonogorski, Instytut Historii, al. Wojska Polskiego 69, 65-762 Zielona Gora, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA0027612