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dc.contributor.author | Tomasiewicz, Jarosław | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-24T07:33:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-24T07:33:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9788322621257 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9788380125070 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/3931 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This work is a synthetic presentation of authoritarian and pro-fascist tendencies appearing in
the Polish political thought between 1921 and 1935, tendencies resulting from the crisis of a liberal
parliamentary democracy getting stronger (not only in Poland) in the interwar period. After
regaining independence, the realities of parliamentarism did not overlap with hopes and expectations
harboured so far that is why disappointment with democracy started to germinate in different
environments. In the first half of the 1920s the slogans of a withdrawal from democracy remained
rare and tentative, and, in general, constrained to postulates of a temporary facilitation of
the institution and democratic mechanisms. The 1926 was the breakthrough. The awareness of the
democracy crisis has become common. Despite this, authoritarianism initially seemed a temporary
phenomenon. In the 1930s, Great Economic Crisis deepened disappointment with democracy
making what was initially an exception to the rule a rule. The harbinger of the new epoch was the
birth of the National Radicalism.
The first chapter is devoted to terminological issues, and explains the notions of demoliberalism,
authoritarianism and totalitarianism used in this work. The second chapter describes the
bases from which authoritarian tendencies were born in the interwar period, namely criticism of
democracy to be found in the Polish political thought of the 19. century. Next chapters present
antidemoliberal conceptions of fascists in the 1920s, conservatives, national democrats, Christian
democrats, Piłsudski’s camp, national-workers movement, agrarian movement and Marxist
groups, as well as esoteric circles, Pan-Slavists, eugenic activists, technocrats, war veterans, and,
finally, National Radicals from the beginning of the 1930s. Both system solutions proposed in their
political thought and their ideological justification were examined. An alternative to a parliamentary
democracy took on different forms. One can see here a variety of propositions: from insignificant
corrections of the democratic system to its total negation. “Old” national democrats, some
conservatives, Christian democrats, agrarian populists, and initially Piłsudskites were limited to
the reform of parliamentarism with maintaining its fundaments. Authoritarianism was represented
by “young” national democrats of the Obóz Wielkiej Polski (the Greater Poland Camp), and
a majority of conservatives. After 1926 it was a direction in which the reform moved. Totalitarianism
did not have many followers. Reform proposals showed far-reaching similarity: reinforcement and independence of the executive,
reorganization and restriction of the role of the Parliament, and, finally, corporatist system
based on organized social groups were postulated. What was different, on the other hand, was
the justification of these projects. The national democrats wanted to protect the interest of the ethnic
Polish nation. Piłsudskites and conservatives accentuated the necessity to provide the Polish
state with power (and, thus, the possibility of expansion). The latter, with Christian democrats,
motivated their postulates with a defense of a traditional social and moral order. According to the
left-wing activists, strong authority was also to be a tool of nation modernization and conducting
social reforms. The most peculiar explanation was given by esoteric groups, according to whom the
change of the political system was to serve the fulfillment of moral and metaphysical aims. | pl_PL |
dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | pl_PL |
dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/ | * |
dc.subject | autorytaryzm Polska | pl_PL |
dc.subject | nacjonalizm Polska | pl_PL |
dc.subject | demokracja Polska | pl_PL |
dc.title | Naprawa czy zniszczenie demokracji? : tendencje autorytarne i profaszystowskie w polskiej myśli politycznej 1921-1935 | pl_PL |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/book | pl_PL |
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