THE NATIONAL MINORITIES IN THE POLISH POLITICS. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly
Year: 2015

Reborn in 1918, from the very outset, the Polish State was confronted with the necessity of coping with an important internal issue -the one regarding the relations between ethnic Poles and the representatives of other nations who after 1923 became new citizens of the Polish Republic. Three basic factors seem to have determined the way in which the problem under discussion was dealt with in the inter-war period: 1/ the ratio of Poles to non-Poles and social differences between the two groups; 2/