Między obiektywnością a polską racją stanu. Dwa dokumenty do analizy sytuacji narodowościowej w województwie poleskim w świetle Drugiego powszechnego spisu ludności z 9 grudnia 1931 roku na Polesiu
Between objectivity and the Polish raison d'état. Two documents for the analysis of the nationality situation in the Polesie province in light of the Second Population Census of December 9, 1931, in Polesia

Summary/Abstract: Population censuses conducted in the interwar period in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, were a tool for the homogenization of multi-ethnic societies on the one hand, and a source of additional mobilization of national minorities on the other. Two documents from the resources of the State Archive of Brest Oblast, on the example of the Polesie province, well illustrate the processes indicated above. Voivode Jan Krahelski presented an authoritative study of the dynamics of national-formation processes in Polesia. It was intended to reconcile two fundamentally contradictory assumptions - the Polish raison d'état in a region inhabited mostly by a population with an unspecified national consciousness, with the principle of impartial collection of nationality statistics. At the same time, the 1931 census led to the mobilization of minority activists, also trying to influence the results against the assumptions of the state apparatus in Polesie.

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