Demoliberałowie galicyjscy wobec zagadnienia ukraińskiego
Demo-liberals of Galicia towards the Ukrainian issue

Summary/Abstract: The very core of the demo-liberal attitude towards the Ukrainian issue at the time, was to view it through the prism of the Polish interests protection exclusively. These interests reflected their strive towards regaining the country’s independence, which they thought possible only through rebuilding Poland’s economic potential and capacity. That ambition alone seemed to determine all the actions undertaken and proclaimed by demo liberals in Galicia, then and there. To accomplish this very objective they were ready to act in line with Ukrainian nationals, but their support was austerely reserved only to the matters of language and primary level education. Their attitude being openly anti -Russian did not involve, though, any form of genuine support for the national resurrection of the Ukrainians in Russia. And, if any of that theme had ever been mentioned in any of their works at all, it was only to mark out the indisputably advantageous status they enjoyed in sovereign Galicia at that time. And yet, it is to be stressed, beyond any doubt, that Galician Liberals never presented nationalistic nor chauvinistic sentiments in their opinions expressed about the cultural and civilization supremacy of the Polish nation. Alike other political circles in Galicia, the Liberals failed to put forward any major constructive proposal to improve the relations with the Ukrainians. The amount of interest laid in the Ukrainian issue expressed by them was relatively superficial and insignificant.

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