Open AccessPolityka narodowościowa II Rzeczypospolitej wobec Łemków
Author(s) -
Mateusz Kępa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
wrocławskie studia politologiczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1643-0328
DOI - 10.19195/1643-0328.20.4
Subject(s) - ethnic group , optimal distinctiveness theory , population , political science , autonomy , loyalty , sociology , demography , law , psychology , psychotherapist
Ethnic policy of the Second Republic of Poland towards the LemkosEthnic policy towards the “non-Polish” population, in particular considering the ethnic group of the Lemkos in the period of the Second Republic of Poland was characterised by two concepts of assimilation: ethnic and national. Undoubtedly, one figure who distinguished himself in the process of creating policy towards the Lemkos was W. Wielhorski, who effectuated clear and complete examination of the Lemkos issue in the Second Republic of Poland. Any operations undertaken by Polish authorities aimed at gaining loyalty of the Lemkos population as well as at conferring autonomy in order to maintain their ethnic or cultural distinctiveness. The twilight of the 1930s saw a change in the government’s orientation towards the “non-Polish” population which was expressed in a military, nationalistic way of leading the ethnic policy.