Irredentystyczne "vademecum" : o Zygmunta Miłkowskiego "Rzeczy o obronie czynnej i o skarbie narodowym"

A very important role in the political education of the “bold generation”, who entered the public scene at the turn of the 1880s and 1890s, was played by Zygmunt Miłkowski’s brochure On the Active Defense and National Treasure published in Paris in 1887. This article presents the content of this brochure as well as the impressions and emotions that accompanied reading this publication by its contemporaries (e.g. the young Stefan Żeromski).