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Polityka kolonialna międzywojennej Polski w świetle źródeł krajowych i zagranicznych: nowe spojrzenie (1918–1945)

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Puchalski P.

Res Gestae. Czasopismo Historyczne

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2018

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vol. 7

68-121

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Interwar Poland's growing need for raw materials and new trade routes encouraged many social activists to argue for the acquisition of, or at least access to, colonies. Initially, this Polish colonial milieu connected the concept of creating pioneer settlements to the concept of channeling economic emigration to South America. After the creation of the Maritime and Colonial League (Liga Morska i Kolonialna) in 1930, the two concepts became partly separated as the Polish colonial milieu’s focus shifed to Africa. The Polish government endorsed activities intended to spread Polish influence in colonial areas: for example, it tacitly supported settlement projects in Angola, as well as a strictly confidential “Liberian action plan” for inciting an autochthonous uprising in Liberia and/or taking over that country’s finances. At the same time, unlike the revisionist powers, Poland attempted to satisfy its perceived needs in colonial matters through the international system. Moreover, Warsaw’s attitude toward the colonial question, made public in late 1936, was a matter of diplomacy. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Józef Beck, used colonial aspirations as diplomatic tools to detract Hitler’s attention from Europe and to prevent Western appeasement from taking place at Poland’s expense. In addition, his ministry incorporated the perceived need for Jewish emigration from Poland into colonial policies, especially in the context of Polish-French negotiations over Madagascar. By September 1939, however, the “Jewish question” was separated from Poland’s colonial policies in discourse and practice. The question of Polish colonies emerged for the last time during World War II, when certain officials of the Polish government-in-exile, failing to predict the quick collapse of the colonial system in the world, suggested channeling refugees and soldiers to Africa to create a basis for future Polish claims to colonial territories.

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Colonising Poland’s Historiography. Concerning Lenny A. Ureña Valerio’s Breakthrough Study

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Puchalski P.

Dzieje Najnowsze

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2020

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vol. 52

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issue 3

313-325

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The present article assesses Prof. Lenny A. Ureña Valerio scholarly debut in a broader context of the present literature in the post-colonial field. The reviewer pays attention to the breakthrough nature of the analysed book which is one of the first to indicate the fact that the German imperial expansion into the Polish lands in 1840–1920 was closely related to the German colonial enterprise in Africa.

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Niniejszy artykuł ocenia naukowy debiut prof. Lenny A. Ureña Valerio w szerszym kontekście istniejącej literatury z obszaru studiów postkolonialnych. Recenzent zwraca uwagę na przełomowy w swoim zakresie charakter omawianej książki, która jako jedna z pierwszych wskazuje na fakt, iż niemiecka ekspansja imperialna na ziemiach polskich w latach 1840–1920 była ściśle powiązana z działaniami Rzeszy w Afryce.

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Directed by Moscow? Communist Poland's Policies Decolonial Africa, 1918/1945-1964

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Puchalski P.

Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość

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2023

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vol. 41

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issue 1

93-112

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W artykule dokonano analizy historycznych przerw i ciągłości w polityce państwa polskiego wobec Afryki, podkreślając utrzymywanie się w niej czynników ekonomicznych i kulturowych. Twierdzi się, że w okresie po II wojnie światowej Warszawa zdołała wypracować znaczną autonomię w podejściu do niepodległych państw i zbuntowanych kolonii na kontynencie, pomimo nacisków ideologicznych i politycznych ze strony Moskwy. W artykule rozważa się zatem rolę RP/PRL w międzynarodowym projekcie socjalistycznym na Globalnym Południu i zaleca dalsze badania, zarówno w odniesieniu do okresu 1945–1964, jak i do lat późniejszych.

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The article examines the historical breaks and continuities in the Polish state’s policies toward (de)colonial Africa, underlining the persistence of the economic and cultural factors therein. It is argued that during the period after World War II, Warsaw manager to exercise considerable autonomy in its approach to independent states and rebellious colonies on the continent, despite ideological and political pressure from Moscow. In this manner, the article reconsiders the role of the Polish (People’s) Republic in the international socialist project in the Global South and recommends further research, both on the period of 1945–1964 and later years.

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Polityka kolonialna międzywojennej Polski w świetle źródeł krajowych i zagranicznych: nowe spojrzenie (1918–1945)

Colonising Poland’s Historiography. Concerning Lenny A. Ureña Valerio’s Breakthrough Study

Directed by Moscow? Communist Poland's Policies Decolonial Africa, 1918/1945-1964