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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485585303321

Autore

Jedlicki Jerzy

Titolo

A history of the Polish intelligentsia . Part 2 The vicious circle, 1832-1864 / / edited by Jerzy Jedlicki ; translated by Tristan Korecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2015

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : Peter Lang Edition, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-653-99804-2

3-653-04953-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik, , 2191-3528 ; ; Band 8

Disciplina

305.5520943809034

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Poland - History

Poland Intellectual life

Poland History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: In lands foreign; In exile, 1832-1845; 1. The exodus; 2. Parties; 3. Poetry and politics; 4. Years have passed; 5. The Nation and Europe; 6. Messianism; Chapter 2: Inheritors; At home, 1832-1845; 1. The defeat's aftermath: repressive measures; 2. The social situation of the intelligentsia; 3. The strategy to adapt; 4. Men-of-the-quill; 5. The Poznań revival; 6. Conspirators; Chapter 3: Crisis; The Poznań Province and Galicia, 1846-1857; 1. A terrible year, or two; 2. The intelligentsia's revolution; 3. Daily grind; 4. Doing something of use

Chapter 4: The End of Tsar Nicholas's epoch The Kingdom and the Lithuanian-Ruthenian guberniyas, 1846-1856; 1. Off to Siberia!; 2. Professional environments; 3. Life, private and social; 4. The visible horizon; Chapter 5: The struggle for primacy; At home and in exile, 1857-1862; 1. Latency; 2. In diaspora; 3. The Poznań arrhythmia; 4. The intelligentsia in the Polish sense; Chapter 6: Jump into an abyss; Warsaw and the country-at-large, 1862-1864; 1. Impatience; 2. Rising and falling; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of



the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put on the debates of the position of intelligentsia in the society, as well as on tensions between great romantic ideas and realities of everyday life. A substantial part deals with the genesis, outbreak and defeat as well as the consequences of the national uprising in 1863, whose preparation was to