THE COVERAGE OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 1919 AND 1922 IN THE LOCAL PRESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AGRARIAN PARTIES IN THE VOIVODESHIP OF CRACOW (Wybory parlamentarne 1919 i 1922 roku w swietle prasy ludowej województwa krakowskiego)

• Authors: Chmura Jan
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with campaigns culminating in the 1919 election to the Legislative Assembly and the 1922 election to the Sejm. The campaigns were followed with great interest by the country people, the more so that for the first time these were general elections. The press affiliated or associated with the various agrarians parties and organizations eager to enlist support for their candidates played an extraordinarily big role during the election run-ups. The papers published party programmes, extolled the record of whatever party they backed, played up more or less realistic election promises, and, not infrequently, dragged their political opponents through the mud. All the leading figures of the agrarian movement, including Wincenty Witos, Jan Stapinski, Józef Putek, Józef Sanojca, took part in lively polemics. At the same time the nationalist press featured their heavyweights, eg. Stanislaw Rymar and Klaudiusz Hrabyk. In effect, what we get in the press is a fairly accurate picture of the contemporary political atmosphere and the main issues of debate.

Keywords

EN

1919-1922); AGRARIAN PRESS (CRACOW VOIVODESHIP; INTERWAR PERIOD); PARLIAMENTARY (SEJM) ELECTIONS (1922); POLAND (INTERWAR YEARS); POLITICAL PARTIES (MALOPOLSKA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Historyczne
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2(210)
• Pages: 183-200
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chmura Jan

• Jan Chmura, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA085726