Le Dilemme Russo-Polonais : l'Alliance Franco-Russe et la Pologne ; les deux conceptions de l'Ordre et de la Liberté
The Russian-Polish Dilemma: the Franco-Russian Alliance and Poland; the two conceptions of Order and Freedom

Author(s): Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Summary/Abstract: The present study on the “two conceptions of order and freedom” is based on a series of lectures given at the École des Hautes-Études sociales in December 1917, and at the École des Langues orientales during the next winter, in 1918. With my friend Bohdan Winiarski, professor of law at the University of Posen, who had arrived — or rather escaped — then from Petrograd, we wanted to talk to the French public about this old problem, Russia-Poland, which the events had just imposed themselves on universal attention with such dramatic violence. We thought it appropriate to attack some prejudices about Poland, commonly accepted in France: Polish anarchy, the lack of an organizing spirit, the inability to govern itself, the impossibility of creating a State, these, of course, are assertions all gratuitous, but which the propaganda of the co-partitioning States endeavored to spread with great skill and zeal. Worse still, French politics at the time also seemed not to completely disdain these pessimistic suggestions. (author’s introduction)

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