A kelet-közép-európai nemzetiségek és a francia külpolitika az első világháború idején

Central and Eastern European nationalities and French foreign policy during World War I In 1914, when World War I broke out, the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe were living in the territories of three empires, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Russia. By 1918-1919, however, the region became a zone of newly formed or substantially transformed small countries, with radical changes to the administrative frameworks of their lives. Contemporaries were already fully aware of the active role France played in bringing about these changes. Depending on personal involvements, later evaluations have to this day ranged from glorifying praise to embittered resentment, often stereotypical and exaggerated. Utilizing the findings of an already abundant literature on the topic, the paper attempts to present and interpret the process of transformation which took place in the approach of French foreign policy related to our region