%0 Journal Article
%T Primum non nocere…? Tożsamość zwolenników orientacji austro-polskiej w okresie pierwszej wojny światowej
%A Drozdowski, Mateusz
%J Prace Historyczne
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/20844069PH.17.013.6256
%N Numer 144 (2)
%P 233-253
%K Austro-Polish solution, Galicia, Wladysław Leopold Jaworski, Leon Bilinski, Michal Bobrzynski.
%@ 0083-4351
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-historyczne/artykul/primum-non-nocere-tozsamosc-zwolennikow-orientacji-austro-polskiej-w-okresie-pierwszej-wojny-swiatowej
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	Primum non nocere…? Identity of the followers of the Austro-Polish solution during World War I

	The aim of the article is to analyze the national identity of the Polish politicians active in a self-governing Galicia who were supporters of the so-called Austro-Polish solution. This political idea was based on a plan to reconstruct Polish sovereignty in cooperation with the Habsburg monarchy. The majority of followers of the Austro-Polish solution were members of one political party: the Cracow conservatives. After the outbreak of World War I the idea was promoted by the Supreme National Committee, an organization that was created as a political and logistic background of the Polish Legions, the semi-independent Polish troops that fought as a part of the Austro-Hungarian military.
	The research is primarily focused on the question whether it is possible to describe the identity of these politicians as Polish or Austrian, or was it a kind of combination of the two? The paper analyzes the attitude of Władysław Leopold Jaworski, Leon Biliński and Michał Bobrzyński, three politicians who, between 1914 and 1918, played a crucial role in all attempts to realize and promote the Austro-Polish idea. Their dilemmas were precisely examined on the basis of memoires, spe­eches and historical studies as well as the archives. The author claims that the attitude of the three politicians towards the Austro-Hungarian Empire undoubtedly contained an emotional component. It means that describing these politicians as Austro-Polish patriots seems to be absolutely justified.