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FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVES OF THE SUPREME NATIONAL COMMITTEE (1914-1917) (Akcja zagraniczna Naczelnego Komitetu Narodowego (1914-1917))

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Drozdowski M.
Studia Historyczne
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2010
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vol. 53
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issue 2(210)
161-181
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The Supreme National Committee (NKN), active in the period of World War I, was a broad coalition of political parties that connected their hopes for Poland's autonomy, or even independence, with opting for Austria-Hungary in the conflict. The Committee organized several quasi-diplomatic initiatives such as setting up offices abroad and sending envoys to establish closer links with Poles living outside the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The goal of the 'Foreign Initiative', as it was called, was to inform public opinion abroad about the outstanding problem of Poland's independence and to argue that any solution to it must be sought in cooperation with the Habsburg monarchy. In all, NKN was able to extend its various operations to twelve countries of Europe and America (Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, United States, and Brazil). Its envoys were able travel freely on the territory of the Central Powers, their allies, and the neutral states. In the countries of the Coalition, where NKN could not act openly, all activities had remain clandestine. Also the diplomatic service of Austria-Hungary showed little eagerness to help their Polish allies. However, the major difficulty the NKN envoys had to face was the hostility of rival organizations whose aim was to enlist Polish support for the Coalition. In an atmosphere of repeated allegations that NKN is a front for German interests many diaspora Poles simply did not trust this organization. In effect, most of the NKN foreign initiatives ended in failure.
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Powstanie Legionów Polskich oraz Naczelnego Komitetu Narodowego w sierpniu 1914 roku. Zapomniany sukces politycznej elity Galicji

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Drozdowski M.
Sowiniec
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2014
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issue 45
21-49
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The aim of the article is to present the events of the end of July and the fi rst weeks of August 1914 which led to the creation of two parallel structures: the Polish Legions and the Supreme National Committee, providing political and organizational infrastructure to the former. This topic has already been repeatedly tackled by Polish historians. Most studies, however, focused on the person of Jozef Piłsudski, as well as on the military aspect of the history of Polish Legions. However, this article presents the political aspect of the events in question, including the attempts to answer two important questions about the genesis of the Polish Legions, ie. who and under what circumstances came up with the idea of creating the Legions as regular military units being a part of the armed forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and at the same time having a national, Polish character.
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Orientacja austro-polska wobec kwestii ukraińskiej w czasie I wojny światowej (do Aktu 5 listopada 1916 r.)

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Drozdowski M.
Krakowskie Pismo Kresowe
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2012
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vol. 4: Galicja jako pogranicze kultur
173-190
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The subject of the research is an attitude of Chief National Committee (CNC), significant Polish, political organization in the time of World War I, towards the Ukrainian national movement and its postulates. CNC came into being in august 1914 as political background of Polish Legions fighting in Austro-Hungarian army. Chief National Committee also played the role of a main exponent of Austro-Polish conception: an idea of creation self-governing Poland under the rule of Habsburg dynasty. In the first two years of war this conception had the strongest position among the others, numerous ideas of reconstruction of Poland. The same time brought also the rapid Ukrainian national rebirth. Ukrainians, mainly these living in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, firmly demanded to single out a new province of the Habsburg monarchy, covering the area of Eastern Galicia and city of Lvov. This idea was of course contradictory to the Polish plans, so campaigning for its own conceptions Chief National Committee had to face Ukrainian demands. Aim of the article is to present these works and opinions of politicians and journalists working for CNC, that refer to the Ukrainian question. Remarkable attention is also paid to the Polish ideas of Ukrainian presence and autonomy in future, independent Poland. Finally, both mental and political sources of the attitude of Polish activists towards Ukrainian national movement are briefly investigated in this work. Problems touched in this work seem to be crucial to understand the fact, that after final collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in autumn 1918, unsolved Polish-Ukrainian conflict led to the breakout of a regular war. Article is based on scientific descriptions, memoirs and archival materials available in the State Archive in Cracow.
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