BALKAN REALPOLITIK LESSON: “WEEKLY REVIEW” IN 1876

The article presents little-known articles on the Balkan War of 1875–1878 published in Przegląd Tygodniowy, a magazine young Warsaw intelligentsia promoting positivism and social civilizational reforms. second war Europe short time (after Franco-Prussian 1870–1871) became an intellectual challenge for generation reformers. Russian Empire appeared it as force bringing freedom to nations, forcing various Polish political circles opt Russia, which defended slogans Pan-Slavism, or Turkey, was called “sick state Europe”. short-term support Russia by editors Tygodniowy turned out be painful lesson positivists realpolitik, geopolitics, ethnopolitics, responsibility one’s word, strategic analysis domestic policy.