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The Local Boundaries of the Nation: Borderland Guard Activists in Polish-Occupied Volhynia, 1919–1920

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Kathryn Ciancia
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This article traces how Polish national activists in the Borderland Guard (Straż Kresowa) constructed the local boundaries of the nation in the multiethnic borderland of Polish-occupied Volhynia. In 1919 and 1920, as Russian imperial structures collapsed and those of the Polish state remained embryonic, these men created a series of exclusions and conditional inclusions that emerged from, rather than in spite of, their nominal celebration of democracy and equality. In addition to debating how far—and on what terms—Ukrainians (or Ruthenians) and Jews could be included in the Polish nation, they also marked out internal Polish boundaries, based on religious, linguistic, economic, class, and affective criteria. Taking readers beyond intellectual debates in Warsaw and toward competitive local questions about the grounds for national membership, the article challenges the usefulness of the broader analytical dichotomy between the “inclusive” (civic) and “exclusive” (ethnic) strains of modern nationalism.

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Slavic Review , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , Fall 2019 , pp. 671 - 693
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My thanks to Małgorzata Fidelis, Irina Gigova, Emily Greble, Maureen Healy, and Andrea Orzoff, as well as to the reviewers and editors at Slavic Review, for their valuable feedback at various stages of the writing process.

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36. While the Guard generally supported Piłsudski’s approach, several historians have noted internal disagreements, including the presence of members who favored elements of the incorporationist model. See Gierowska-Kałłaur, Straż Kresowa a Zarząd Cywilny Ziem Wschodnich, 47–60; Waingertner, “Towarzystwo Straży Kresowej i Związek Rad Ludowych,” 162. For potted biographies of major activists, see Nowacki, ZET w walce o niepodległość i budowę państwa, 544–68.

37. I use Polish forms of place names, rather than Ukrainian, Russian, Yiddish, or other local languages, since the area was under Polish occupation at this time. This choice does not denote any normative assumptions about the “real” national identities of these places.

38. Zielińska, Towarzystwo Straży Kresowej, 51; Schenke, Nationalstaat und nationale Frage, 71.

39. Records of personnel in Łuck county indicate that, from June 1919, the position of county secretary was held by a 22-year old woman. “Lista Pracowników Straży Kresowej na powiecie łuckim, czerwiec 1920r,” AAN Towarzystwo Straży Kresowej (hereafter TSK) 145/162. Nina Zielińska’s list of people who worked for the nationwide organization also includes several women. See Zielińska, Towarzystwo Straży Kresowej, 34–35.

40. “Dlaczego żołnierz polski wkroczył na Wołyń?” Polak Kresowy, June 8, 1919, 2–3. If published articles showcased how people welcomed the army’s presence, however, reports indicated that the violent behavior of Polish soldiers toward civilians frequently increased hatred of Poles in general. “Stosunki na Wołyniu” (kwiecień-czerwiec 1919), Józef Piłsudski Institute of America Archives, Adiutantura Generalna Naczelnego Wodza 2/16/245–7.

41. “Obchody narodowe na Wołyniu,” Polak Kresowy, June 22, 1919, 2.

42. “Obchód narodowy w Kowlu,” Polak Kresowy, July 20, 1919, 4.

43. Ibid.

44. “Memoriał w sprawie położenia na Wołyniu, zadań Administracji i Straży Kresowej,” AAN TSK 217/91.

45. “Protokuł zjazdu delegatów ludności polskiej powiatu Łuckiego dnia 27 lipca 1919 roku,” AAN TSK 239/18.

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48. “Protokuł zjazdu delegatów północnych części powiatów Łuckiego i Rówieńskiego dnia 28 września 1919 r. w Sarnach,” AAN TSK 239/114.

49. “Protokuł Zjazdu Powiatu Rówieńskiego w dniu 26/X 1919 r.,” AAN TSK 239/149.

50. Lud is a singular noun in Polish and evokes connotations of what Brian Porter calls “organic homogeneity.” Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate, 14.

51. “Memoriał w sprawie położenia na Wołyniu,” AAN TSK 217/89.

52. “Protokuł delegatów ludności polskiej pow. Kowelskiego w dniu 14.9.1919,” AAN TSK 239/110.

53. “Protokuł zjazdu delegatów północnych części powiatów Łuckiego i Rówieńskiego,” AAN TSK 239/121.

54. Ibid.

55. “Protokuł zjazdu delegatów ludności polskiej pow. Kowelskiego w dniu 14.9.1919r.” AAN TSK 239/102.

56. “Minorities Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers (the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan and the United States) and Poland, signed at Versailles, 28 June 1919,” at http://www.forost.ungarisches-institut.de/pdf/19190628-3.pdf (accessed May 2, 2019).

57. On hierarchies within the mandate system, see Susan Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford, 2015).

58. “Protokuł zjazdu delegatów ludności polskiej pow. Kowelskiego,” AAN TSK 239/106–107.

59. The phrase “Ruthenian brothers” is in “Protokuł zjazdu powiatu Rówieńskiego w dniu 26/X 1919 r.,” AAN TSK 239/155.

60. Gierowska-Kałłaur, Zarząd Cywilny Ziem Wschodnich, 337.

61. In doing so, they drew on pre-1914 intra-Polish tensions between the pragmatic approach to imperialism espoused by large landowners and the anti-imperial nationalism of the intelligentsia. Zarycki, Ideologies of Eastness, 145.

62. Lohr, Nationalizing the Russian Empire, 87.

63. Statistics published in 1905 indicated that almost 48 percent of the Volhynian governorate’s private land was in Polish hands, as opposed to the 45 percent that was owned by “Russians,” broadly defined. Weeks, Nation and State, 87. On intra-Polish competitions, see Beauvois, Daniel, La bataille de la terre en Ukraine, 1863–1914: Les Polonais et les conflits socio-ethniques (Lille, 1993), 149–241Google Scholar.

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67. As Peter Holquist has argued, such reports are more revealing about the systems that collected the information than they are about the people under surveillance. Holquist, ““Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work”: Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context,” The Journal of Modern History 69, no. 3 (September 1997): 415–50.

68. Gierowska-Kałłaur, Zarząd Cywilny Ziem Wschodnich, 329.

69. “Memoriał w sprawie położenia na Wołyniu,” AAN TSK 217/93.

70. “Raport tygodniowy za czas od 22.X. do 29.X.1919 roku,” AAN TSK 214/15. A “salt panic” was declared across the kresy more generally. See “W sprawie soli dla kresów,” Wschód Polski 1, no. 2 (January 1920), 34–35.

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76. “Obchód narodowy w Kowlu,” 4.

77. “Protokuł zjazdu delegatów ludności powiatu Łuckiego dnia 27 lipca 1919,” AAN TSK 239/19. On the broader context, see Fink, Carole, Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938 (Cambridge, Eng., 2004), 101–30Google Scholar.

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83. “Raport w objazdu pow. Dubieńskiego i Krzemienieckiego dn. 21, 22, i 23 października 1919 r.,” AAN TSK 327/11.

84. Ibid., 9.

85. “Raport miesięczny z powiatu Dubieńskiego za czas od 21/III od 11/IV 1920 roku,” AAN TSK 328/1.

86. “Wyciągi z raportów kierownika Straży Kresowej pow. Łuckiego,” AAN TSK 201/91.

87. “Raport o sytuacji na Wołyniu,” AAN TSK 215/40.

88. “Memoriał w sprawie położenia na Wołyniu,” AAN TSK 217/89. On colonists, see “Koloniści Polscy na Wołyniu,” Polak Kresowy, January 18, 1920, 6.

89. “Sprawy rolne na Wołyniu,” Polak Kresowy, August 31, 1919, 1.

90. “Wyciągi z raportów kierownika Straży Kresowej pow. Łuckiego,” AAN TSK 201/101, 100.

91. Maliszewski, “Żywioł polski,” 621.

92. “Raport o sytuacji na Wołyniu,” AAN TSK 215/43. The author of the report is named only as the deputy head of the Guard in Volhynia. Nina Zielińska states that this was Antoni Zalewski, although she does not give a date to indicate when he took up the position. See Zielińska, Towarzystwo Straży Kresowej, 35. In other documents, Zalewski is noted as still holding the position of the head instructor for Łuck county in June 1920. See “Lista Pracowników Straży Kresowej na powiecie łuckim, czerwiec 1920r,” AAN TSK 145/162.

93. “Raport o sytuacji na Wołyniu,” AAN TSK 215/43.

94. Ibid., 53.

95. On “Little Russians” as a branch of the Russian nation, see Weeks, Nation and State, 64–65. On “Germanized Italians,” see Frank, Matthew, Making Minorities History: Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe (Oxford, 2017), 104CrossRefGoogle Scholar; on “Magyarized Romanians,” see Maria Bucur, Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania (Pittsburgh, 2002), 145–46.

96. Porter, When Nationalism Began to Hate, 182–88.

97. “Mémoire sur les Frontières Nord et Sud-Est de la Pologne Restaurée,” AAN KNP 317/10; Sprawozdanie stenograficzne z 24 posiedzenia Sejmu Ustawodawczego z dnia 3 kwietnia 1919 roku, 9.

98. Some members of the Polish left did not believe that all kresy populations were members of developed national groups. See Szczepański, Janusz, Społeczeństwo Polski w walce z najazdem bolszewickim 1920 roku (Warsaw, 2000), 49Google Scholar.

99. Palij, The Ukrainian-Polish Defensive Alliance, particularly 99–123.

100. “Wydział Organizacyjny SK Okręgu Wołyńskiego do Wydział Org. SK w Warszawie, 19 kwietnia 1920,” AAN TSK 415/52; “Lista Pracowników Straży Kresowej,” AAN TSK 145/162.

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