Działalność niepodległościowa młodzieży królewiackiej przed I wojną światową (na przykładzie ziem północno-wschodnich)

Abstract

Youth organizations developing the ideology of independence were first established in the eighties of the 19th century. More intense activities aiming at organizing youth military movement were undertaken after the end of the Revolution of 1905. In the area of North-Eastern part of Polish Kingdom independence activity was undertaken by youth of secondary schools, from junior high schools, and, especially after 1907, from private eeonomic schools established at the time of so called post-revolutionary relieves. Since 1908 young people of varied political background (nationalistic and socialistic) assembled on one side, being joined together by military fight for regaining independence. At that time youth migration from the Polish Kingdom to academic centers in Galicia - Cracow and Lviv, became stronger too. Changes in international politics and the atmosphere of approaching Great War were favorable to more and more crystallized activity of the young. Besides, "autonomous conditions" in Galicia cities somehow created the background for active independence activity of the Polish Kingdom youth.