STUDNICKI Wladyslaw - The modern Lithuanian state and its attitude towards Poles [1922].

1922. general typesetting: Gebethner and Wolff. 14.5x23 cm, pp. 107, (2), softcover. Good condition (minor edgewear and rust spots on cover).

A critical assessment of the newly created Lithuanian state. Contents include: Population and territory. Lack of Polonophobia among the Lithuanian people, and the awakening of it by today's Lithuanian leaders. Lack of state traditions. Mention of Polish uprisings as Lithuania's only political traditions. The main factors of the Lithuanian cause and its opposition to the Polish one. The failure of the 1917 agreement with revolutionary Russia. The agricultural culture of Lithuania. Noble and peasant property. Anti-Polish agrarian reform. The area of Polish property. The insignificance of industry. Lithuania's trade balance patched up by selling off forests. Railroads in Lithuania. The issue of shipping. The pre-war deficit of Kaunas. The need to reduce the Lithuanian army. The insignificant number of Lithuanian intelligentsia in the state. Russification. Lithuanian priests. Jews. The Seimas and its anti-Polish character. The issue of abandoned estates. Rape and abuse of Poles by Lithuanians. Recognition of the Lithuanian state by Europe. Lithuania's demands towards Poland. Federation projects. Lithuania's attitude to them. Our postulates.