Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades before its Fall Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- From the Editor of the Volume
- Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
- The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
- „Freie Kirche im freien Staat”: Die katholische Autonomiebewegung in Ungarn
- Prof. Andor Csizmadia Dr. Dr. h.c. and His Research into the Legal History of Dualism
- Gerichtsverfassung und Justizwesen in Ungarn um die Jahrhundertwende. Kurzer Überblick der tatsächlichen Verwirklichung der Trennung von Justiz und Verwaltung – richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
- Constitutional Liberty in the Area of Emigration in Austria (1867–1918). The Activities of the Emigration Agencies in Galicia and Lodomeria
- Le roi manqué de Pologne — Stéphane II Habsburg
- The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
- The Hungarian Feudal Institutions as Found in the Legal System of the Second Polish Republic. The Relationships between the Estate Manor and the Village in the Polish Spisz (Szepes) and Polish Orawa (Arva)
Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- From the Editor of the Volume
- Józef Piłsudski's Attitude toward the Cause of Austria and Germany in World War I
- The Role Played by the Constitutional Tribunal in Preserving the Liberal Nature of the Habsburg Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th Century
- „Freie Kirche im freien Staat”: Die katholische Autonomiebewegung in Ungarn
- Prof. Andor Csizmadia Dr. Dr. h.c. and His Research into the Legal History of Dualism
- Gerichtsverfassung und Justizwesen in Ungarn um die Jahrhundertwende. Kurzer Überblick der tatsächlichen Verwirklichung der Trennung von Justiz und Verwaltung – richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
- Constitutional Liberty in the Area of Emigration in Austria (1867–1918). The Activities of the Emigration Agencies in Galicia and Lodomeria
- Le roi manqué de Pologne — Stéphane II Habsburg
- The Cultural Heritage of the Hungarian Fideicommissa
- The Hungarian Feudal Institutions as Found in the Legal System of the Second Polish Republic. The Relationships between the Estate Manor and the Village in the Polish Spisz (Szepes) and Polish Orawa (Arva)
Summary
Introductory Remarks. Józef Piłsudski: the Statesman of the Time of the War and of the Inter-war Period
Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935) was a particularly eminent statesman and a man of the military, remarkably anxious for restoring Poland's independence during World War I. In the inter-war time he also played a significant role in the Polish political life. In the early stage of his activities he tried to combine the socialist ideas with those whose objective was the restoring of independent statehood of his motherland. The sources confirm that before the outbreak of World War I he had a particularly accurate vision of future developments. He prophesied the disintegration of the three empires that at one time partitioned Poland. Therefore he thought it indispensable to form some nucleus of the future Polish army capable of defending the restored country in the environment that was hostile to it.
When the war broke out he had his share in forming the Polish legions which, while siding Austria, were involved in fighting against one partitioner: Russia. Apart from these activities, he as early as 1914, was busy preparing the clandestine troops composed of militarily trained men who, particularly on the area from which Russians were driven away, would make up a conspiratorial army. This secret army was referred to as the POW (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa).
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- Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades before its FallThe Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference - Cracow, September 2007, pp. 9 - 24Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2010