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An Ethnic Poland: a Failure of National Self-determination

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Central European History and the European Union

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The concept of national self-determination combines the ideas of democracy with those of nationalism. Both have a common source in the French Revolution of 1789, which first articulated the principles of a democratic national government. Whereas initially the democratic element predominated, that is ‘the right by people to choose their own type of governments’,1 in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in practice it came to mean the right of nations to have their own state.

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  1. Department of International Studies, Glendon College, York University, Canada

    Stanislav J. Kirschbaum

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Kulczycki, J.J. (2007). An Ethnic Poland: a Failure of National Self-determination. In: Kirschbaum, S.J. (eds) Central European History and the European Union. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230579538_9

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