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Rising subjects : the 1905 Revolution and the origins of modern Polish politics / Wiktor Marzec.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marzec, Wiktor, author.
- Series:
- Russian and East European studies.
- Russian and East European studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Political activity--Poland--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Poland--History--Revolution, 1905-1907--Social aspects.
- Poland.
- Poland--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Rising Subjects explores the change of the public sphere in Russian Poland during the 1905 Revolution. The 1905 Revolution was one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general democratizations in Polish history. It was a popular rebellion fostering political participation of the working class. The infringement of previously carefully guarded limits of the public sphere triggered a powerful conservative reaction among the commercial and landed elites, and frightened the intelligentsia. Polish nationalists promised to eliminate the revolutionary 'anarchy' and gave meaning to the sense of disappointment after the revolution. This study considers the 1905 Revolution as a tipping point for the ongoing developments of the public sphere. It addresses the question of Polish socialism, nationalism, and antisemitism. It demonstrates the difficulties in using the class cleavage for democratic politics in a conflict-ridden, multi-ethnic polity striving for an irredentist self-assertion against the imperial power. In the Polish case, 1905 was something much different from a 'run through' for the 1917 Revolution, for long shaping basic political division and 'ethicizing' political difference"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Workers and their intelligentsia
- Workers and the public sphere
- Speech and action
- Life and politics
- The intelligentsia and its workers
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822987482
- 0822987481
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