Nation and Memory in Eastern Europe (19 th and 20 th century)

1. Nation and Memory in Eastern Europe (19th and 20th century) Lecture 6 Polish History II Week 7

2. Back to Catholic values, support Catholic Church, pray and live virtuous life Uprisings, waiting for international crisis, European war Restitution of May Constitution 1791, liberal Constitution, stronger government Fight against traitors, replacement of nobility in national leadership Liberation of peasants, (National) Education of Peasants Modernisation, Polish Middle Class, Organic Work Why was Poland partitioned and what can be done to regain independence? God’s Punishment – Sins Evilness of Prussia, Austria, Russia – Break of international law Weakness of old Polish Constitution – Anarchy, not Liberty Guilt of noble factions - treason Oppression of peasants Polish Backwardness

3. Enlightenment History of the Polish Nation Teki Naruszewicza (Collection of Documents of Polish History) Bishop Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz, 1733-1796

4. Options/Perspectives ‘Neutral’ Ideas Moderates Insurgents Partitioning Powers Free after Norman Davies, Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland’s Present. New Edition (Oxford, 2001), p. 157

5. Outline 1. Poland and the Napoleonic Wars 2. „For our and for your freedom...“ 3. Realism vs. Romanticism 4. Conclusion: Problems of Polish nation building

7. 1813 Suchodolski: The death of Józef Poniatowskis at Leipzig

9. Autonomy or Semi-Autonomy Grand Duchy of Warsaw 1807 – 1815 Kingdom of Poland 1815 – 1864 (1831) Grand Duchy of Posen 1815 – 1848 Crown Land of Galicia and 1867 – 1918 Lodomeria

10. Outline 1. Poland and the Napoleonic Wars 2. „For our and for your freedom...“ 3. Realism vs. Romanticism 4. Conclusion: Problems of Polish nation building

11. November Uprising, 1830

12. 1831 Finis Poloniae

13. Polish Emigration • Conservative-aristocratic (Czartoryski in Hotel Lambert) • Moderate democratic: Polish National Committee • Radical: Polish Democratic Society (TDP)

14. Romanticism Joachim Lelewel 1786-1861 Karol Szajnocha 1818-1868 Poland, her History and Affairs Surveyed, in 20 vols, Posen, 1853-1876 Jadwiga i Jagiello

15. Uprisings before 1900 1794 Kosciuszko-Uprising (Russia) Also in Greater Poland (Prussia) 1806 Uprising in Greater Poland (Prussia) 1830 November Uprising (Russia) 1846 Greater Poland (attempt, Prussia) and Galician Slaughter, Kraków (Austria) 1848 Greater Poland (Prussia) 1863 January Uprising (Russia)

16. Polish lands, 1840-1848

18. Polish participation in European revolutions 1848-1849

19. January Uprising, 1863/64

20. 1863

21. Outline 1. Poland and the Napoleonic Wars 2. „For our and for your freedom...“ 3. Realism vs. Romanticism 4. Conclusion: Problems of Polish nation building

22. Realism and Positivism Cracow School: Michał Bobrzyński 1849-1935 A short history of Poland, 1879 The Birth of the Polish State, 2 vols., 1914-22 Warsaw School: Tadeusz Korzon 1839-1918

23. Organic Work Starting point: failed insurrections Poland culturally and economically too underdeveloped to sustain an independent state New strategy: • Improve industry and trade in the Polish provinces • Build towns and railways • Organize cooperatives and organize Polish peasantry • Raise the literacy and the national consciousness of the population Important advocates: Stańczyk group in Cracow and Warsaw positivists

25. The Polish lands 1863 - 1914 • Russian Empire • Kingdom of Poland becomes Vistula land • Russification • Discrimination of Catholic Church (Uniate Church) • University of Warsaw replaced by Imperial University of Warsaw (Teaching in Russian) German Empire • Anti-Catholic policy under Bismarck • Germanisation of School system • School strike after attempt to introduce German languagein religious instruction • Policy to promote settlement of ethnic Germans • Discrimination of ethnic Poles

26. Michał Drzymała, his wife and his wagon

28. Crownland Galicia and Lodomeria, 1910 Population: 8 Million

29. Austria-Hungary after 1867 Crownland Galicia and Lodomeria • Polish elite profits from imperial reforms • Close cooperation with Polish elites • Social, political, economic and cultural dominance of Poles • Polonisation of administration, education • Dominance of Polish language in universities in Cracow and Lwów • Modern political parties develop, • Hundreds of Polish newspapers and journals, thousands of books are published • Polish politicians (Polish club in Austrian parliament) very influential • Polish ministers and gouvernors Galicia – the Polish Piedmont

30. Outline 1. Poland and the Napoleonic Wars 2. „For our and for your freedom...“ 3. Realism vs. Romanticism 4. Conclusion: Problems of Polish nation building

31. Putzger, Historischer Weltatlas, pp. 106 f.

32. The Making of the Polish Nation PRO • Polish language and long tradition of literate culture • Influence in Galicia since 1867 • German Empire: rule of law • Roman-Catholic faith • Common history of most of the territory until the end of the 18th c. • Existence of a numerous, genuinely Polish elite – the nobility • Cultural bonds: similar traditions, costumes, songs and so on • Emancipation/liberation of peasants in Prussia, Austria, Russia Paradox: creating precondition for Polish nation building CONTRA • Partitions of Poland: no state • Living in the Russian Empire, Prussia/German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. • No common present • Opportunities for educated Poles in the service of the Empires • Small middle class • Sharp social conflict between peasants and estate owners • Unclear borders • Unclear national boundaries (for ex. Polish Jew or Jewish Pole) • National 'awakening' of Ukrainians, Lithuanias etc. • Policy of Russification and Germanization