Eastern Territories of Reborn Poland. Włodzimierz Mędrzecki’s View (Observations and Reflections on the Margin) Cover Image

Terytoria wschodnie Polski Odrodzonej. Spojrzenie Włodzimierza Mędrzeckiego (spostrzeżenia i refleksje na marginesie)
Eastern Territories of Reborn Poland. Włodzimierz Mędrzecki’s View (Observations and Reflections on the Margin)

Author(s): Marek Kornat
Subject(s): History, Political history, Social history, Book-Review
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Second Republic of Poland; Eastern Borderlines; national minorities in Poland;, Polish internal policy

Summary/Abstract: This article is a critical commentary on Włodzimierz Mędrzecki’s book, Kresowy kalejdoskop. Wędrówki przez ziemie wschodnie Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej 1918–1939 (Kaleidoscope of the Borderlands. Wanderings through the Eastern Lands of the Second Polish Republic 1918–1939) (2018). The author takes up questions about the historical balance of Polish possession of the eastern territories, obtained in the aftermath of the 1919–1920 war with Soviet Russia, which was victorious for Poland.

  • Issue Year: 54/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 249-262
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish