Prometejska racja stanu

Abstract

The Promethean reason of the state. The history of the Promethean movement in the Second Polish Republic
 Prometheism, which started to develop in 1921, after the Polish‑Bolshevik Peace of Riga, was both an ideological and political project. The idea of liberating nations oppressed by the Soviet Union was accompanied by publishing activities, institutional and community network. The article presents the genesis of Prometheism, its geopolitical and historical sources, political provenance of its main activists, evolution of the movement in the 1930s and the institutional dimension of Polish Prometheists. The paper also discusses the most important views of the creators of the movement, including thoughts on Russian imperialism, solidarity with enslaved nations and the united fight for “our freedom and yours”, originating both in the sense of mission and the analysis of the Republic of Poland’s reason of state. The author focuses on two important elements of the movement – the realism of the political concept and the Promethean elite’s political thought about the state, the nation and the geopolitics of Eastern Europe.