Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World / / Anna Procyk.

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• VerfasserIn: Procyk, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830-1. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the democratic principles espoused by Young Europe's founder, Giuseppe Mazzini. Based on archival sources as well as well-documented publications in Eastern Europe, this study highlights that the national awakening among the Czechs, Slovaks, and Galician Ukrainians was not just cultural, as is typically assumed, but political as well. The documentary sources testify that at its inception the political nationalism in Eastern Europe, founded on the humanistic ideals promoted by Mazzini, was republican-democratic in nature and that the clandestine groups in Eastern Europe were cooperating with one another through underground channels. It was through this cooperation during the 1830s that the better-educated Poles and Ukrainians in the political underground tied to Young Europe became aware that the interests of their nations, bound together by the forces of history and political necessity, were best served when they worked closely together.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Young Europe as an Idea: The Impact of Exile on the Revolutionary Thought of Giuseppe Mazzini -- Chapter Two. The Risorgimento and the Great Polish Emigration: A Pact Sealed in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience? -- Chapter Three. Reception of Mazzini's Ideas in East Central Europe -- Chapter Four. East Galicia: The Testing Ground of Young Europe's Ideals -- Chapter Five. Young Poland's Revolutionary Underground in Russian-Ruled Lands -- Chapter Six. Sprouts of Young Europe in Ukraine: The Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood -- Chapter Seven. Young Europe: The Ideological Roots of "The Spring of Nations" in the Slavic World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index