Ujednolicanie dyskursów w państwie unaradawiającym: ugrupowania rządzące wobec ludności białoruskiej w II Rzeczypospolitej
Unification of Discourses in a Nationalising State: Governing Groups towards the Belarusian Population in the Second Polish Republic

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problems of adoption of nationalist orientation by a newly created multinational state, regarded by its power elites as the one-nation state. The purpose of the analysis is to answer the question in what way the political groups wielding power in interwar Poland constructed the discourses shaping the nationalistic policy and practice towards the indigenous Belarusian population inhabiting the Polish territory. The study, based on the texts generated by members of the analysed political camps, supplemented by historiographic and political science analyses, uses the analytical frames created by Rogers Brubaker. The public discourses of governing formations (National Democracy, Pilsudski camp, and the Camp of National Unity) are analysed in four topics: (1) the ethnic model of the nation; (2) the idea of state ownership by the nation; (3) the convention that the interest of the state is threatened; (4) the need for actions necessary for the proper implementation of the national interest. Each of these discourses revealed the features characteristics of a nationalising state, and the differences concerned mainly the structure of the discourse, which was becoming increasingly uniform.

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