INTERMARIAN DOCTRINE IN THE IDEOLOGY OF THE PRO-GOVERNMENTALYOUTH MOVEMENT OF INTERWAR POLAND

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the formation of geopolitical ideas in the process of indoctrination of the younger
generation in the course of official youth policy. The problem is considered on the example of the reflection of the provisions of the
geopolitical doctrine of the Intermarium in the ideology of some pro-government youth organizations in Poland in the 1920s — 1930s.
The article points out that this doctrine became a part of the “popular geopolitics” of the then Polish state. The article gives a brief
description of the doctrine of the Intermarium and shows the geopolitical elements of the ideological declarations of the Union of
Rural Youth “Sev” — the Union of the Young Village, the Legion of the Young, the Sovereign Thought. It is concluded that the
activities of these youth associations contributed to the rooting of the relevant geopolitical ideas in the public mind. In the course of the
study of the geopolitical indoctrination of the younger generation of interwar Poland, a number of documentary sources were used,
some of them are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

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