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This article is an attempt at presenting the reception by the political elites of the Prussian Partition of the so-called Act of 5th November declared in 1916 by the central powers. It proclaimed the establishment of an independent Polish state as a protectorate of the central powers. The country’s territory was to encompass the parts of the Kingdom of Poland occupied by Germany and Austria-Hungary which formerly had been incorporated into Russia. The article presents briefly the political and social situation in the Prussian Partition at the time of the outbreak of WWI. The author presents primarily the attitudes of Polish political elites from the Poznań Province to the declaration. He also presents the political situation on the German side in the Prussian Partition. The article concludes with an indication that further research is required into the Partition’s political and social issues during World War I.
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This article is an attempt at presenting the opinions of Stanisław Koźmian, a Krakowbased member of the Stańczycy political group, on the development of the Polish cause in 1914–1916. Koźmian was a supporter of the so-called Austrian-Polish solution which consisted in incorporating the Kingdom of Poland to Austria-Hungary and granting it more autonomy. However, he did not postulate that the monarchy should be restructured towards the Austria-Hungary-Poland trialism as he realised that Hungarians would oppose this suggestion. According to Koźmian, the Act of 5th November was a poor solution as it did not offer the Kingdom of Poland any guarantee of independence. It only created “written down” independence.
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In this article, the author makes an attempt at presenting articles selected by him from Polish newspapers published in Russia during World War I and the responses and interpretations of the Act of 5th November of the relevant journalists and politicians, especially those with democratic as well as national-democratic affiliations. The author made an informed choice of the texts published in the press as the fundamental source used to discuss the issue in question. The author is certain that to a large extent, these publications reflect the opinions of the Polish political circles as well as the press analyses of the international consequences of the Act issued by the two emperors to the Polish cause.
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