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

• Superior document: Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik, Band 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Jedlicki, Jerzy,; Korecki, Tristan,
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : : Peter Lang Edition,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2015; 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ; Band 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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

Table of Contents

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