TY - JOUR
TI - Separatyzm, dzielnicowość i unifikacja w II Rzeczypospolitej (1918–1939). Problemy integracji państwa i społeczeństwa po odzyskaniu niepodległości
AU - Olstowski, Przemysław
TI - Separatyzm, dzielnicowość i unifikacja w II Rzeczypospolitej (1918–1939). Problemy integracji państwa i społeczeństwa po odzyskaniu niepodległości
AB - 
	Separatism, regionalism and unification in the Second Republic of Poland (1918–1939): Problems of the state and society’s integration after the regaining of independence

	The rebuilding of an independent Polish state after the First World War meant, above all, the urgent necessity of unification of three formerly partitioned lands, especially in context of law, economy and administration. This integration process in the Second Republic as a whole, although long and difficult, was successful. Real problems for the state authorities were separatist tendencies and regional antagonisms. The consequences of more than a hundred years of functioning of three partitioned lands within the Prussian (German), Austrian and Russian states resulted in both national and cultural heterogeneity. Interwar Poland was inhabited by a nationally and ethnically diverse population of various faiths. Germans in former Prussian Poland and in Polish part of Upper Silesia had hopes of rejoining the Reich. Ukrainians in south-eastern districts of Poland wanted to win provincial autonomy and –in the future –their own independent state. Moreover, the social and economic consequences of First World War in different regions of Poland, and the reality of the reborn Polish state, created the ground for conflicts, disappointments, and for regional antagonisms, sometimes even evoking separatist moods, especially in the western provinces. The conundrum of national minorities remained unresolved to the end of the Second Polish Republic in 1939. The question of social and national awareness of members of ethnic groups within the Polish society (Kashubians, Silesians, Masurians), like antagonisms between inhabitants of formerly partitioned lands, was a part of the nation-creating process and integration of the country. The gradual unification of different regional populations within the all-Polish social, cultural, political and economic life in the interwar period was cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.
VL - 2020
IS - Numer 147 (4)
PY - 2020
SN - 0083-4351
C1 - 2084-4069
SP - 733
EP - 743
DO - 10.4467/20844069PH.20.040.12494
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-historyczne/artykul/separatyzm-dzielnicowosc-i-unifikacja-w-ii-rzeczypospolitej-1918-1939-problemy-integracji-panstwa-i-spoleczenstwa-po-odzyskaniu-niepodleglosci
KW - separatyzm
KW - dzielnicowość
KW - unifikacja
KW - procesy integracyjne / Second Republic of Poland
KW - home policy
KW - separatism
KW - regionalism
KW - unification
KW - integration processes
KW - II Rzeczpospolita
KW - polityka wewnętrzna