The Polish question
Polish Council of Inter-Party Union
A union of Polish national and conservative parties in Russia, based in Moscow and linked to the Polish National Committee in Paris. In 1918 it helped to raise Polish troops on the Entente side.
The Council was formed at the Polish Political Congress in Moscow, called by the right in August 1917 (some accounts date its origins to 1916); it continued the work of the Polish National Committee, evacuated from Warsaw to Russia in 1915. National Democrats and Realists predominated; its president was Stanisław Wojciechowski, and Stanisław Grabski and Józef Wielowieyski ran its foreign affairs. From the autumn of 1917 it recognised the Paris Polish National Committee as Poland's representation in the West and staked everything on an Entente victory.
After the Bolshevik coup the Council supported the Polish corps, opposed placing them under the Regency Council and tried to save the I Corps from disarmament. After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk it helped to send soldiers on to the Polish army in France. On 15 June 1918 in Moscow it concluded an agreement with Józef Haller, who became head of its Military Commission; Polish units in the east were to be part of the army in France. Soon afterwards the Council ceased its activity under Bolshevik pressure.
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