Polityka administracyjna kierownictwa resortu spraw wewnętrznych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej wobec samorządu terytorialnego w latach 1918–1939

The administrative policy of the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs towards local government in the years 1918–1939 was implemented on the basis of two concepts. The first was in force in the years 1918–1926, focusing on combating direct threats to security and internal order in the state. It had an impact on the performance of the ministry’s tasks in the so-called strictly administrative departments, which also included matters of local government. The second, in force in the years 1926–1939, focused on the so-called “general political” issues, i.e. general assessment of the political impact on the state of individual segments of the country’s social and political life (political parties, social organisations, national minorities, etc.) and the influence on that life by the administration of internal affairs in the direction desired by the ruling camp. In detail, the administrative policy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs towards municipal unions should be analysed in the following time periods: 1918–1926, 1926–1930, 1930–1935, 1935–1939.