Polish question

<p>The Polish question  was the issue, in international politics, of the existence of <a href="/facts/Poland/eXJ7fd0D">Poland</a> as an independent state. Raised soon after the <a href="/facts/Partitions_of_Poland/kyVSVxEc">partitions of Poland</a> in the late 18th century, it became a question current in European and American diplomacy throughout the 19th and parts of the 20th centuries. Historian <a href="/facts/Norman_Davies/t6vAfAWs">Norman Davies</a> notes that the Polish question is the primary lens through which most histories of Europe discuss the <a href="/facts/History_of_Poland/EBcnbP5r">history of Poland</a>, and was one of the most common topics of European politics for close to two centuries. The Polish question was a major topic at all major European peace conferences: at the <a href="/facts/Congress_of_Vienna/SXD64asG">Congress of Vienna</a> in 1815, at the <a href="/facts/Versailles_Conference/Quq4gdtj">Versailles Conference</a> in 1919, and at the <a href="/facts/Yalta_Conference/j99LAKSk">Yalta Conference</a> and the <a href="/facts/Potsdam_Conference/JWFoaxhg">Potsdam Conference</a> in 1945. As <a href="/facts/Piotr_Wandycz/eWUcNeaV">Piotr Wandycz</a> writes, "What to the Poles was the Polish cause, to the outside world was the Polish question."
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Polish question