Praca dla Polski. Działalność niepodległościowa oraz udział Błażeja Stolarskiego w odbudowie struktur państwowych w latach 1914–1922
Work for Poland. Błażej Stolarski’s Independence Activity and Participation in the Reconstruction of State Structures Between 1914–1922

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present Błażej Stolarski’s participation in the creation of basis of an independent republic during World War I and the term of office of the Legislative Parliament on three complementary levels of activity. The first one refers to the conspiratorial activity and the development of political and parliamentary career of Stolarski as a member of the Polish Military Organisation and of the Provisional Council of State of the Kingdom of Poland, the Minister of Agriculture in the government of Jędrzej Moraczewski, as well as the president of the Polish People’s Party “Wyzwolenie” [‘Liberation’] and the head of its parliamentary faction. The second area of his interest, particularly relevant at the time of the reconstruction of the national identity and the institution of a sovereign state, concerns the issues related to the spread of education in society, the establishment of schools and libraries in the countryside and the development of district self-government. The third sphere of Błażej Stolarski’s involvement is related to his work in social and economic organisations, in particular in the Central Association of Agricultural Societies. Activity in the latter field had a deeper state-forming subtext, which came down to the formation of attitudes of attachment to an independent homeland among peasants, while obliging them to fulfil their state obligations.

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