Inteligencja polska w służbie państwowej II Rzeczypospolitej (zarys problematyki)
Polish intelligentsia in the state service of the Second Polish Republic (outline of the problem)

Summary/Abstract: Polish intelligentsia shaped over the nineteenth century was to fulfill various tasks. One of the most important was the “state service”, implemented, among others, by working on stateowned posts. The euphoria of the independence regained in 1918 accompanied the concern for the proper organization of a state that did not even have a nationwide government, and several political centers pretended to be in power. The country was destroyed and famished, and the borders had to be marked out by armed forces, despite the fact that there was actually no uniform army. There was no administrative apparatus that would turn economic and social-political life into peaceful work. It is not surprising that the Polish intelligentsia had an important role to play in this case, and the functioning of the state depended primarily on the number and quality of personnel it could have at its disposal. It should be noted that certainly the process of building the state and creating its apparatus have activated a fairly wide circle of professionals and activists among the intelligentsia, who did even titanic work in the difficult conditions of the interwar period, which was visible in the reconstruction and organization of the new Polish state and ensuring conditions for peaceful existence.

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