Yes. The Pulawy Legion, later reformed into wider Polish units in Russian Army.
Although I don't know if the Blue Army in France wasn't bigger.
Can you tell me more about this? I've never encountered it before. Nevertheless, it would be logical for Polish conscripts to be consolidated into Polish units after the Declaration, but that doesn't mean there was a pre-war "Legion" movement in the Galician sense. Was there?
Well the desires of each side need to be weighted against realities of situation, regardless if the Revolution fails, Russia is still in pretty bad situation by 1917 and unlikely to go out of the war unchanged.
I consider it essentially impossible for the Tsarist goverenment to survive 1917. The scenario is hypothetical, really?
Still like I said I would envision a bloc of countries aligned to Russia such as Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
I'd expect more pragmatism. Yugoslavia will work with anyone who shares its interests, principally "Italy sucks boo chiz", and could well co-operate with a German regime. Bulgaria, as I said, will sell itself to the highest bidder.
That is incorrect, the Blue Army in France was the work of Dmowski and Endecja, it wasn't part of Pilsudski's faction.
Re-checking sources, I'd gotten by dates in a muddle and considerably over-estimated the extent to which the Blue Army was formed from deserters who had formerly been working for the CP, however this all goes back to an offhand remakr I made to the effect that the Declaration didn't wholly succeed in foiling Austo-Polonism, which is a remark I'll stand by.
Actually I found out that this is not the case-the first Polish unit in WW1 that fought was "Bayonne Legion" formed in France and fighting for Entente.
By "the military movement", I referred to Pilsudski's movement, the most prominent un the earlier stage of the war.
It would fit Dmowski, people there were supporters of Pilsudski, so he would cut off his political opposition.
True, but the way you phrased yourself indicated that that was your opinion and not Roman Dmowski's.
Well there is going to be uprising there anyway, and without the war with Bolsheviks in the East Poles are going to concentrate far more effort and support to gain those territories. Also Sazonov definetely mentioned Upper Silesia as part of Russian controlled Poland
Well, it depends on the precise scenario. Any scenario for a Tsarist victory which is actually plausible had victory in late '16 at the latest, and the one I'm toying with for my TL involved German forces in a much better shape and Germany better able to negotiate terms. Whereas if we're in the strange hypothetical of Tsarist victor in '18, you're probably right.
Depends on who is running Germany. Dmowski certainly was in ok relations with a fair range of Russian conservatives when he was in Duma.
But what I mean is that Russia is in all thinsg pragmatic and if it's aiming for good relations with Germany, it will have no time for Dmowski making a liability of himself.
I don't get what you mean ? Czechoslovakia in OTL was afraid of both of Austrian or Hungarian attempts of revival.
Ah, you mean the revanchism of the Austrians and also the Hungarians, not the revanchism of the Hapsburg monarchy!
Bulgaria had traditional good relations with Russia.
I'll have to question that. In 1912, Russia has been sternly telling Bulgaria off for getting too near the Straits, and going back earlier much of Bulgaria's earlier independent history has Bulgarian politicians trying to preserve the country's independence from Russian generals. Russia spoke out angrily against Bulgaria's annexation of Eastern Rumelia in 1885.
They can do what they want, but still this would be problematic situation caused by Russian bloc.
And?