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The Austro-Hungarian Empire and its political allies in the Polish Kingdom 1914–1918
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | The Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against Serbia on July 28, 1914 caused very important but unintentional consequences. The civil und military authorities of the Empire expected the conflict to be substantially successful and to increase their influence in the Balkan area. The situation changed radically at the beginning of August 1914 with the transformation of the local conflict into a great war in which all the European powers were involved. In the years 1914–1915 the fight on the Eastern front against the Russian armies took place mostly on the soil of Galicia and within the Polish Kingdom. This brought the Polish Cause into the limelight. The Polish Cause was determined in 1881 by the alliance of the Three Emperors, which guaranteed Austro-Hungary, Russia, and Germany the continuous possession of the Polish territories, which had been captured in the partitions of Poland between 1772–1795. In the years 1915–1918 the occupation of the Polish Kingdom’s southern territories by the Austro-Hungarian troops and the creation of the General Military Governorship in Poland forced the political elite of the Empire to rethink Poland’s future. This occurred because of the great pressure exercised by the representatives of the Polish nation with their political, economical, and cultural demands. It was necessary to create a political program to realize those demands and to identify its opponents as well as to find political partners within Polish society. The purpose of this paper is to examine the political situation in the Polish Kingdom after the outbreak of the First World War, the solution to the Polish Cause proposed by the authorities of the Habsburg monarchy, and to look at its potential allies. Also considered will be the question of the opponents to the solution and the political options that were open to them. The problem of political parties in the Polish Kingdom and the actions of Austro-Hungary in the First World War regarding the so called “Polish Cause” have been a popular subject in historical literature1. The author will therefore focus mainly on the subject of political alliances, trying to highlight the lack of consistency and the prejudice of the Empire in its choosing of political allies, |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
