Melchior Wańkowicz i Edward Woyniłłowicz o roli i znaczeniu polskiego ziemiaństwa na ziemiach białoruskich. Polemiczny dwugłos z 1922 roku

The article addresses the issue of different assessment of the role of the Polish landed gentry from the Belarusian lands in the 19th century. It presents a press polemic between representatives of two landowner families from the Minsk Governorate: the young, aspiring writer Melchior Wańkowicz and the distinguished, older landowner activist Edward Woyniłłowicz. The latter was for over half a century the president of the Minsk Agricultural Society, the most important organization gathering Polish landowners during the years of repression after the fall of the January Uprising. Edward Woyniłłowicz used the polemic with Wańkowicz to broadly evaluate and thoroughly criticize the entire eastern policy of Poland. In his opinion, the Polish state won the war against the Bolsheviks in 1920 but lost the peace with them concluded in Riga in March 1921.