ABSTRACT
The most expansionist politicians in Poland claimed all the territories and disregarded their non-Polish ethnic composition. Pilsudski turned his power over to the Sejm and was reappointed as the head of state, this time by the democratically elected national representation. Formed on the side of the Central Powers was the Supreme National Committee, composed of all the Polish political parties in the Austrian part of the country. The National Democrats under Roman Dmowski postulated the incorporation of only ethnically Polish territories with some Polish gains in ethnically mixed borderlands. Viewing Poland's situation in the international sphere at any given time, they have tried to make the best of it. Pilsudski himself favored the federal solution according to which Poland had to facilitate the separation of non-Russian nationalities from the Soviet state and the formation, under Poland's leadership, of a federation of nations.
